No full backups of this save set were found in the media database?

[iangoo]

this is networker 6.1 on solaris.

suddenly one of my clients has started having a full backup done everyday out of nowhere, instead of incremental. the rest of the clients are fine though. this is the error i get: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup

i did an nsrck -R -Y hostname and did a backup to try and recreate the index from scratch, and nogo, its just 0KB now and never gets any bigger, doing a full each time.

can someone point me in the right direction? i dont know networker very well.

 

[mlmmilkyway]

If the client is an Unix system check the date on it, I had one Linux client that had the wrong year and the Networker server did a full every night.

Mark

 

[iangoo]

the date is accurate. thanks for the suggestion though.

 

[wallace88]

Test to see if it is media database corruption.

This can be dowe by:

- stopping NetWorker
- rename mm to mm.old
- rename index to index.old
- restart netWorker
- create a file device for test backups
- change the client to have a small saveset
- try backing up... this should backup as level=full
- try backing up again. this should be incremental
if you allow the group to force incremental.

If this works, then the media database is corrupted.

If this does not work, then for some reason, NetWorker thinks that when the client contacts the backup server, it is a different client than what is configured. I.E. the host name and/or i.p/ address is not resolving as it should.

 

[kdoe]

"If this does not work, then for some reason, NetWorker thinks that when the client contacts the backup server, it is a different client than what is configured. I.E. the host name and/or i.p/ address is not resolving as it should."

And then ??
We got a new MSX-Server-Hardware: New Windowsinstall, Same IP, same name, new Networker-Client-Installation and get this message.
What is to do now ?

Klaus

 

[TDun]

Was this system upgraded from Networker 5? If so, is the client running 5 or 6?

If they are both at 6 and were upgraded from 5, run nsrck clientname and see if it says it is converting the index in the monitor screen.