On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Victor Olsen wrote:

No firewall involved, yet.

Both machines are on the same subnet.
The client has about 80GB of data to be backed up.
Im going to try backing up a client with a small set of files to see if
that makes a difference.



> What type of backup are you trying to run?
> Is there a firewall involved?
> Had a similar problem with a oracle database on a client through a firewall,
> and turning off multiplexing in the schedules in the class for the client
> helped a lot...
> 
> 
> Victor
> 
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> Emne: [Veritas-bu] Sun L280 not writing.
> 
> 
> 
> I have hooked up my SUN L280 to a win2k box to create a new master &
> media server for another location.
> 
> I have installed NBU 3.4 and upgraded to 3.4.1 and patches to 3.4.1_2
> 
> The windows box sees the L280 robot and tape drive with no problems.
> 
> robtest.exe lets me move tapes from slots to the drive and back again with
> no probs.
> 
> The problem is when I go to backup a client, it mounts the tape on the
> L280 and NBU says its mounted and has positioned to a file on the tape and
> says 'being writing' but nothing happens.
> 
> The display on the L280 shows 'drive idle' and the gui on client in the
> status window shows nothing happening.
> 
> The client is a win2k box which also is patched to most recent patch
> levels as well.
> 
> Any ideas as to why data isnt being written to the drive ?
> 
> 
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