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color=#008080><STRONG><EM>Ditto</EM></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
veritas-bu-admin@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin@mailman.eng.auburn.edu]<B>On Behalf Of </B>King, Cheryl<BR><B>Sent:</B> 31 August 2005 16:24<BR><B>To:</B> John Howard; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Veritas-bu] Linux
restore problems ... RESOLVED!<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=782542015-31082005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Good question. I'm interested as well. This
sounds very bizzare to me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> veritas-bu-admin@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>John Howard<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Veritas-bu] Linux
restore problems ... RESOLVED!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Just cuious, what vendor/model router is involved and what is the
architecture/OS of the master/media.<BR><BR>john<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 8/30/05, <B class=gmail_sendername>Wayne T
Smith</B> <<A href="mailto:wtsmith@maine.edu">wtsmith@maine.edu</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">A
few weeks ago I reported inability to restore a file (times out),<BR>except
to the backup server itself.<BR><BR>After a few weeks and getting several
people involved, we've discovered<BR>the cause: our router has a sensitivity
to a certain sequence of <BR>characters of data ... and this file had that
sequence! There is a<BR>fix available to the router
and it should be applied next week.<BR><BR>Thanks to all who offered
suggestions!<BR><BR>cheers, wayne<BR><BR>Wayne T Smith wrote, in
part, on 8/2/2005 4:14 PM: <BR><BR>> My Solaris NetBackup server is v5.1MP3 and I have a problem with some<BR>> Linux
restores. On a few machines a full restore results in
some<BR>> (many!) files not being restored. Some files are
restored; others <BR>> aren't. If I pick one of the "problem"
files and restore just it, I<BR>> get a status code 5, with a "Socket
write failed" error, 9-11 minutes<BR>> into the restore. An
example Admin Console log is listed below. <BR>> Failures are always 9-11
minutes into the restore, with the below<BR>> example almost exactly 10
minutes.<BR>><BR>> A restore to another Linux machine (version &
MP do not seem to<BR>> matter) results in the same
error. However, a restore to my backup <BR>> server
succeeds! For what it is worth, the data was backed up
with<BR>> NetBackup v4.5MP5.<BR>><BR>> I could use suggestions for
how to debug this problem (socket write<BR>> failed is not very
informative) and any suggestions on settings to <BR>> tweak, should that
be the problem.<BR>><BR>> (My master/media server has the following
timeouts reported: Client<BR>> connect timeout: 900 seconds, Client read
timeout: 1800 seconds, Media<BR>> server connect timeout: 60 seconds, Use
OS dependent timeouts is <BR>> checked. On the client, the
Client read timeout is 300 seconds).<BR>><BR>> Thanks and cheers, wayne<BR>><BR>><BR>> ash:~$ less<BR>>
/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/wsmith/logs/jbpUJAmua4gi.log <BR>>
Restore started 08/02/2005 14:45:49<BR>><BR>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx)
Restore job id 248339 will require 1 image.<BR>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx)
Media id NB0361 is needed for the restore.<BR>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx )
Media id NB0263 is needed for the restore.<BR>> 14:45:57 (248339.xxx)
Media id NB0145 is needed for the restore.<BR>><BR>> 14:46:02
(248339.001) Restoring from image created Sat 30 Jul 2005<BR>> 12:19:57
AM EDT <BR>> 14:46:10 (248339.001) INF - Waiting for mount of media id
NB0263 on<BR>> server ash for reading.<BR>> 14:53:56 (248339.001) INF
- Waiting for positioning of media id NB0263<BR>> on server ash for reading. <BR>> 14:54:31 (248339.001) INF - Beginning restore from server
ash to<BR>> client <A
href="http://cedar.unet.maine.edu">cedar.unet.maine.edu</A>.<BR>> 15:04:37 (248339.001) The following files/folders were not restored: <BR>> 15:04:38 (248339.001) UTF -<BR>>
/usr/local/blackboard/content/vi/bb_bb60/courses/1/00230_K_042/groups/_9839_1/_276333_1/Presenta<BR>><BR>>
tion.ppt<BR>> 15:04:39 (248339.001) Status of restore from image created
Sat 30 Jul <BR>> 2005 12:19:57 AM EDT = socket write
failed<BR>><BR>> 15:04:40 (248339.xxx) INF - Status = the restore
failed to recover the<BR>> requested files.<BR>>
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