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[tripdraw]

Had a problem with Windows clients last night. Unix clients on the same infrastructure were unaffected - other than device contention for the UNIX clients, because the Windows clients were all doing full backups, but the schedule says to do an incremental.

We do a full backup once a week on Friday/Saturday.

We had to skip the backup of 9/10 october because of a major comms outage - so the last full backup was the 2nd October.

Last night Networker decided to do a full backup of all the windows clients, with message :

savegroup info: [client]:F:: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup

I can look in the media database and see a full backup on the 2nd October. It seems that it's determined that 13 days is too long to go on doing incrementals, but I can't find that value in the client setup, the savegroup setup, or the server configuration, and it only affected the Windows clients, not UNIX clients.

We're running EMC Networker 7.4.2 on Solaris 10 on sparc hardware.

So my main question is - does anyone know if there's a variable setting somewhere to stretch out or overide this mysterious value of "13" ? Or is it just an unlucky number?

 

[denisfr]

Hello,

what is the retention policy for this client ?

 

[605]

Does this error happen on ALL windows clients and on ALL drives? - I can't say that this is not true but it is really hard to believe.

The only thing i can imagine is a defective media DB which is most unlikely to happen since 7.3. And in this case it should also affect UNIX clients as well. Also, the message should also pop up for any level.

If you don't have more info it is really hard to investigate.

 

[tripdraw]

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