moin,
i only got one response from Blake Brehl, who pointed out, that
it could be a problem with NFS. if it really was - I'm not sure.
all client files reside on a NFS-mounted directory. I erased the
whole client-installation and reinstalled it on a local FS. and
finally nsrexecd registered with the portmapper again. maybe some
files did get corrupted in the crash we had.
funnily: reinstallation of the client was one of the first things
I did, but I used NFS & didn't say yes to every 'should I erase
this?' question of the deinstall-routine.
thanx again to Blake Brehl,
andreas bunten
my original msg on Thu, 16 Nov 2000:
>moin admins,
>
>we have (again) a problem with networker save and restore.
>
>our installation:
> server: networker 5.5.2 Build 165 Turbo/4
> client: the same patched version ...
> everything on patch-free digital unix 4.0d
>
>the server backs up 4 clients (including himself) and everything
>did run ok up to the crash last friday (power blackout). afterwards
>two of the clients didn't save anymore - two (including server)
>still do nicely. the error-msgs are appended at the end of the mail.
>
>i read the dokumentation and finally testedthe ports with rpcinfo:
>
>output on working client:
> [...]
> 390113 1 tcp 7937 nsrexec
>on non-working clients this line does not appear.
>
>restarting the nsrexecd didn't help. and i get no errors in the messages
>or syslog.dated. what could possibly be the problem and what can i do?
>
>thanx in advance - i'll write a summary,
>andreas bunten
>
>
>a sample error-msg in the summary-mails:
>
>< NetWorker Savegroup: (alert) xyz completed, 1 client(s)
>< (xyz.uni-kiel.de Failed)
>< Start time: Wed Nov 15 23:00:02 2000
>< End time: Wed Nov 15 23:02:41 2000
><
>< --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
><
>< * xyz.uni-kiel.de:/export/mariechen18a 3 retries attempted
>< * xyz.uni-kiel.de:/export/mariechen18a Connection refused
><
>< --- Successful Save Sets ---
><
>< * xyz.uni-kiel.de:index 3 retries attempted
>< server.uni-kiel.de:/export/venus1/networker/index/xyz.uni-kiel.de
>< level=9, 3 KB 00:00:30 7 files
>
>errors in NSR's daemon.log:
>
>[...]
>< 11/16/00 10:10:50 savegrp: command 'savefs -s
>< server.uni-kiel.de -c xyz.uni-kiel.de -g mariechen17 -p -l full -R -v -F
>/export/mariechen17 ' for client
>< xyz.uni-kiel.de exited with return code 9.
>< 11/16/00 10:10:50 savegrp: xyz.uni-kiel.de:probe unexpectedly exited.
>< * xyz.uni-kiel.de:/export/mariechen17 3 retries attempted
>< * xyz.uni-kiel.de:/export/mariechen17 Connection refused
>[...]
Received on Sat Nov 18 2000 - 20:32:15 NZDT