Netware - rcmdsrv problems.

[aralleida]

HI,
I´ve a customer with Novell 5.1 and LegatoNW Client 4.15.
When he is doing a full backup ( 80Gb aprox ) he have and error : " /dev/tcp too many connections". If he does an incremental backup, no problem, backup finish correctly.

Thanks for your advices !!
Toni.

 

[rgzimmer]

Does the account he uses for backups have a limit on the number of connections? Does he have enough licenses available on the Legato server?

 

[aralleida]

Hello,
I don´t know if this account have limit on the number of session, but if I make an incremental backup, it works fine.

Where I can look this parameter for number of session ??
From Server or from Client side. ??

Thanks for your reply .

Toni

 

[rgzimmer]

Netware uses a user account for backups, unlike NT and Unix. There should be one in NDS that they use.

 

[itergo]

Hello,

when you got NetWare 5.1 with SP3 there is a known problem with the connections on the system.
Maybe you have to install the tsa5up7 Patch from Novell

http://support.novell.com/filefinder.

This patch fixes the multi connection problem on Novell 5.1 with SP3.

good luck
Stefan Bartels

ITERGO
stefan.bartels@itergo.com

 

[thospeacock]

Two things to consider when backing up Novell clients.
1. Use the new Legato client 4.2 with Novell 5.1
There is also a updates tsa500 and smdr out there
2. Lower your client parallelism to 2 ( default is 4 )

If you want to continue using 4.15 of the Legato client you should get the updated nsrlib.nlm (dated Feb 2001).

-Tom

 

[rgzimmer]

Can you clarify why you would want to reduce client parallelism? I want my backups to finish faster not slower. Reducing the parallelism woudl increase backup time.

Also, I have not had good experience with Legato releases. (6.1 release didn't include all of the fixes that were in 6.02) 4.2 has only been out a short time and there is no way many of the bugs are known, yet. At least with 4.15 I know most of the workarounds. How can you be so confident that 4.2 will resolve problems? Do you work for Legato? ;-)

 

[thospeacock]

No I don't work for the "big one"... but I do consulting for Legato and the input I give is from my hands-on experience. If you are experiencing problems, one avenue is to try reducing the client parallelism to determine if it is a client resource issue. 4.2 is stable and there are a few questions lingering on the restore side. This needs to be investigated more.

-Tom