Are you backing up just a user-accounts partition, or are you backing up the UV account itself, too?
We had an issue with backup software (I think it was BackupExec) and backing up the UV account. If the NT client code is the same as the nix code (ported from nix) that could be your problem ... When our backup software built up a list of files to be copied to tape, among other directories, it picked up the global catalog, which has loads of files whose name begins with "*" ... OOPS !!! This list got reglobbed ... and the asterisks were treated as wildcards ... I can't remember what happened, but I can well imagine a recursive file expansion causing the system to OOMplode ... (Out Of Memory). And don't say "this is NT" - there are more than enough cases of nix software being modified "just enough" to run on NT and suffering the same problems as running native nix. I'm not saying this definitely IS such an instance, but it could well be ... Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bartlett Sent: 19 February 2004 14:29 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: UniVerse and Backup Exec Hi Gwen We're running UniVerse 10.0.4 (a known baddie as it is) and Backup Exec, tho' which I don't know off hand. We also get plenty app errors We've had 47 system crashes sinces Aug '03, which IBM have first blamed on Backup Exec, then told us "that 10.1 would fix it" thereby admitting the problem lay in UV. When pressed to supply us 10.1 to fix the problem, the answer was that we'd have to wait for 10.1.1 as that was specific for "our platform" We originally thought the problem might lie in the way the system (incl W2K) had been loaded, and so re-installed W2K Server, then Backup Exec, then used that to restore the system. Didn't work. We're still running B/E on the UV server, the system crashed twice yesterday, and once today, and management still doesn't see the need to change servers / UV's just yet. One thing tho' we did do when tweaking the reloaded UniVerse - we modified a registry key that some bright spark had discovered helped B/E and UV to co-exist. What that tweak is I don't remember - but I know that the guy who does is also on this list - Kurt, please supply! Something else that IBM said might fix the problem was if we installed B/E on a different server and backed up over the network... dennis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of At 09:18 AM 2/17/04 -0500, you wrote: >I am running: >UniVerse 10.0.17 >Windows 2000 SP 4 >Veritas Backup Exec: Media Server & Admin. Console: Ver 9.00 Rev 4454 <snip much of message> >Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! >Gwen Buck >Gaska Tape Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ------ Steven M Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cary, North Carolina, United States of America -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users *********************************************************************************** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. *********************************************************************************** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
