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Conference decwet::networker

Title:NetWorker
Notice:kits - 12-14, problem reporting - 41.*, basics 1-100
Moderator:DECWET::RANDALL.com::lenox
Created:Thu Oct 10 1996
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:750
Total number of notes:3361

623.0. "'save' command hangs, doesn't appear to run" by SANITY::LEMONS (And we thank you for your support.) Thu Apr 24 1997 11:42

    Client:  NetWorker Client for DU V4.2
    Server:  NetWorker Server for DU T4.3
    [I know, I know, field test questions should be reported to the FT email
    address.  But I don't think this is a FT bug; rather, a bug in my
    understanding]
    
    Hi
    
    I'm fiddling with pre-/post-processing commands.  As part of this, I'm
    testing a command procedure that contains the following command:
    
    #
    # Execute the NetWorker save command to backup the saveset [=partition]
    # to the NetWorker server.
    #
    save -s "$SERVER" -g "$GROUP" -LL -f "$FILE" -m "$MASQUERADE" -l
    "$LEVEL" -W "$WIDTH" -N "$NAME"
    + save -s nw12780.hlo.dec.com -g Testing new clients -LL -f - -m
    email1.hlo.dec.com -l full -W 78 -N /
    
    When this save command runs, nothing seems to happen.  The command has
    been executing for over 5 minutes.  I don't see any signs of anything
    happening on the server; no activity, but no errors in the logs.  What
    should I be looking at to diagnose this?
    
    Thanks!
    tl
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623.1which filesystem are you saving ?BACHUS::DEVOSManu Devos NSIS Brussels 856-7539Thu Apr 24 1997 12:4613
    Hi
    
    Are you not missing the most important parameter of the save command 
    ( I think the only mandatory one) : the file system? Thus, you should
    add to your save a final argument which is "/". The argument "-N /" is
    simply indicating under which "name" the saveset should be recorded.
    
    > + save -s nw12780.hlo.dec.com -g Testing new clients -LL -f - -m
        email1.hlo.dec.com -l full -W 78 -N /  /
                                              ^^^^
                                              ++++
    Manu.
623.2SANITY::LEMONSAnd we thank you for your support.Thu Apr 24 1997 15:377
    Hi Manu
    
    Ah!  That sounds very promising!  It sure would speed things up if it
    knew what to save :).
    
    Thanks for the help!
    tl
623.3SANITY::LEMONSAnd we thank you for your support.Fri Apr 25 1997 11:1717
    Well, I think I've got the save command right:
    
    + save -s nw12780.hlo.dec.com -g Testing new clients -LL -f - -m
    email1.hlo.dec.
    com -l full -W 78 -N / /
    
    but nothing happens.  According to the man page for save:
    
    "The progress of a save can be monitored using
      the X Window System based nwadmin(8) program"
    
    Well, I'm looking at nwadmin on the server, but see nothing.
    
    Hints, please!
    
    Thanks
    tl
623.4SANITY::LEMONSAnd we thank you for your support.Fri Apr 25 1997 11:348
    The problem was '-f -':
    
    	"- causes the default directives to be read from standard input."
    
    So it was expecting me to be entering directives, which I was not.
    
    Thanks
    tl