Hello list users,

I'm having some problems with Networker backing-up to adv_file devices on my
brand new DataDomain Storage device.

Every so often (on average once a week) Networker will stop while doing the
backups and complain about the following (from the daemon log):

nsrd media request critical: Waiting for 1 writable volumes to backup pool
'DataDomain UNIX FS' tape or disk

The thing is, the volume is there. It is already mounted and available. We
have to manually unmount it and then Networker will remount it (since auto
media management is enabled) and resume the backups.

Is anyone else having that problem?

We are running NetWorker 7.4.5.Build.746 Network Edition on Solaris 10. The
adv_file is an NFS share exported from a DataDomain NAS. The share is
automounted on demand (using autofs) and a network problem is not suspected
at this time (we are able to cd to the adv_file directory when the problem
occurs).

The storage node is connected directly to the NAS through ethernet (i.e. a
crossover link).



Any ideas?

(Apologies for a possible douple posting. It looks like exchange ate my
first email to the list.)

Louis Munro

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