Your backup server is:  fcl-bck-p001.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com

Your storage node is: fcl-bck-p004.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com

Is this correct?  If in backup command you place save -L -c ..freshfieldsbruckhaus.com (which I assume is client B in this case), does that work?

If not, try the same from command line first and then check mminfo and nsrinfo outputs to see if it worked.   Then we can go back to server initiated backup.

Thanks Hrvoje, hope you are doing fine...

fcl-bck-p001: server
fcl-bck-p504: storage nodes
fcl-dpa-v501: client

Runing save from the storage node, i.e. a manual save works fine, it only backups what has changed (incremental):

C:\Install\Networker\test>save -s fcl-bck-p001 -b dc2dd1backup -L -c fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -t "09/30/2011 11:54:19" "C:\Install\Networker\test"
57777:save:Multiple client instances of fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com, u
sing the first entry
75146:save: Saving files modified since Fri Sep 30 11:54:19 2011

save: C:\Install\Networker\test  0 KB 00:00:01      0 files
7167:save: save completion time: 30/09/2011 11:57:16

Daemon.log shows:

70896 09/30/2011 12:54:19 PM  nsrd fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test saving to pool 'dc2dd1backup' (dc2dd1backup.002)
71659 09/30/2011 12:54:19 PM  nsrd fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test done saving to pool 'dc2dd1backup' (dc2dd1backup.002) 3337 KB

A server initiated backup always does a full :-( And it thinks it has to index the files against the storage node and not the client (look at the first line "info: ".

42506 09/30/2011 01:04:23 PM  nsrd savegroup info: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup
70896 09/30/2011 01:04:39 PM  nsrd fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test saving to pool 'dc2dd1backup' (dc2dd1backup.002)
71659 09/30/2011 01:04:40 PM  nsrd fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test done saving to pool 'dc2dd1backup' (dc2dd1backup.002) 6670 KB

I've tried changing the level and the schedule on the group without luck! I forced an incremental from the command line and same thing. It still thinks it needs to index the files against the storage node:

[root@fcl-bck-p001 ~]# savegrp -vv -I -l incr DC2DD1_TEST_GROUP
32451:savegrp: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test level=incr
7236:savegrp: Group will not limit job parallelism
32494:savegrp: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:probe   started
savefs -s fcl-bck-p001.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -c fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -g DC2DD1_TEST_GROUP -p -l full -R -v -F "C:\\Install\\Networker\\test"
fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test level=full, dn=0, mx=1, vers=pools, p=36
77567:savegrp: DC2DD1_TEST_GROUP * fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:Probe  See the file /nsr/tmp/sg/DC2DD1_TEST_GROUP/sso.fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhau.ELDqA2 for output of save command.
7341:savegrp: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:Probe succeeded.
32494:savegrp: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test started
save -L -c fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -s fcl-bck-p001.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -g DC2DD1_TEST_GROUP -LL -m fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com -a "device interface=data domain" -l full -W 78 -N "C:\\Install\\Networker\\test" "C:\\Install\\Networker\\test"
...

But it spawns a full as it tries to check for existing backups of the storage node instead of the client:

nsrd savegroup info: fcl-bck-p504.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com:C:\Install\Networker\test: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup

This is pissing me off, looks like a bug to me! I'm running 7.6.2.1 Build 638.

Thanks for your help, this is basic functionality and I can't make this work now :-(

Thanks!
R

Backup command is set to:

save -L -c fcl-dpa-v501.freshfieldsbruckhaus.com

Does root on storage node have permissions to touch client's index file?  It should work though as I use something similar, just automated with PowerSnap (in such case, you must also on storage node's servers file place client to make it work as by masking data you get this sort of logical relationship).

Hi again, yes servers file is empty, so no problems there.

Can you have a look maybe there is an LGTsc or similar for this? I have not yet tested on older versions of Networker... only 7.6.2

Thanks,

R