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Regular file size change
We have a Solaris backup server & Windows client all using NW 732 Jumbo 11.
We backup full once a week and incremental daily. Last week we wanted to restore Thursday's backup but were not able to browse through Wednesday & Thursday's backup. All older backups are visible for recovery but no these two.
The daemon & savegrp etc. show that backups were 100% successful. nsrinfo, mminfo etc. show the contents but recovery interfaces like nwrecover, save set recover or recover command do show this backups.
Support has run some commands and found out that on Thursday night when backups were on 749 files were backed up of which 747 files grew in byte size during the backups. We do not have an anti-virus there. No RAID rebuilding was on so we are not able to find out the possible reason for almost all files growing in byte size during the backups.
Any suggestions would be well appreciated.
We backup full once a week and incremental daily. Last week we wanted to restore Thursday's backup but were not able to browse through Wednesday & Thursday's backup. All older backups are visible for recovery but no these two.
The daemon & savegrp etc. show that backups were 100% successful. nsrinfo, mminfo etc. show the contents but recovery interfaces like nwrecover, save set recover or recover command do show this backups.
Support has run some commands and found out that on Thursday night when backups were on 749 files were backed up of which 747 files grew in byte size during the backups. We do not have an anti-virus there. No RAID rebuilding was on so we are not able to find out the possible reason for almost all files growing in byte size during the backups.
Any suggestions would be well appreciated.
ble1
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May 2nd, 2007 01:00
amediratta
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May 2nd, 2007 06:00
Normally we also restore files that grew in size during backups so this should not have been a problem.
System/Application logs have no specific entry and these are just data files form a file server..MS Office etc. types.
ble1
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May 3rd, 2007 04:00
amediratta
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May 8th, 2007 11:00
If we recover indexes using scanner -i and then recover files, we still get file with same names but funny characters. The data recovered is not usable.
ble1
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May 8th, 2007 12:00
To me it sounds as backup you are after has been corrupted - now question is if backup just did save of already corrupted or something else is going on. If you check with nsrinfo what you have in index and that doesn't match silly thing you get via restore you have good case against support.
amediratta
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May 8th, 2007 22:00
The data on disk is not corrupted as it is available for restoration before & after these two dates for which it is behaving like this.
nsrinfo etc. did not work for these and for this reason support wanted me to make a clone and test. Noiw, we have realized we made a clone on AFTD which has mixed up the things further.
ble1
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May 9th, 2007 01:00