Save set: All -Not working...

[montana76]

Hi all,

I have installed Legato Networker 7.3.0 and try to run a full backup of my windows 2003 R2 server that acts as the backup server for my location.

I set the schedule to 'Override Full' and the client has save set: 'All' typed in the box.
When I start the backup of the client that has over 30 Gb local data on C: it only backup 3,5 Gb of the total amount of > 30 Gb!

Why?

/M

 

[TheDugsBaws]

Is this the very first backup of this server? Ignore the schedule for the moment. If the group is set to "Force Incremental" and the server has been backed up already then an incremental will be forced.

 

[605]

I think the best way is to run the group from the command line with "savegrp -l full -G groupname". This will avoid any problems.

 

[a060463xyz]

are the 30 GB Data networker databases ?
please check the capacity of the \nsr Directory.
Networker uses local directives to skip those Data during normal Backup Operations.

 

[montana76]

Hi all,

Thanks for all your answers, but I tried all your solutions but non of them worked... It still backup only 3 Gb of 30 Gb.
I will try to contact I local firm at my location to see if they knew about this problem.

 

[a060463xyz]

Do you have mount points ?
Then Saveset All is not sufficient, you have to specify all mountpoints as savesets.

 

[605]

Also, there might be a local directive (nsr.dir file) in a directory that skips files/directories.

 

[montana76]

I have no mount points and I have no .nsr files in my dirs. The server is brand new! (Windows w2k3 R2)

/M

 

[605]

Are you going UNIX/Linux?
On Windows, there is no .nsr files but only nsr.dir files.
If you searched for .nsr files, you will go the wrong track.


I think to investigate the problem, we first have to find out what NW backs up:
- Comparing the filenames backed up with the ones which exist on C: will most likely tell you more.
- Are the missing files always the same?
- Certain directories will be skipped by default (for example the DLLcache directory. These are hardcoded and not
even documented. If your files are stored in those (for whatever reason), they will simply be skipped.

Sorry, but you obviously need to do more homework.

 

[mblm07]

The first thing you want to do is get off 7.3.0, at least put a reasonably stable version like 7.3.3 down.

 

[denisfr]

You can also make a test of the save by issuing these two commands :

savegrp -c client -l full -n -G groupname
NW will walk the filesystems to give you the amount of data it plans to save.

savegrp -c client -l full -p -G groupname
NW will show you which filesystems would be saved (and at what level)

But how can you say that data saved is only 3.5GB ? By a mminfo command on the tape ? by looking at daemon.log ?