NetWorker: How to remove duplicated default resources from configuration
Summary: This Article describes a method to find and safely remove default objects which could have been mistakenly created in the NetWorker configuration.
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Symptoms
- Duplicated default resources such as Default pool, Server Protection policy, or Forever Incremental schedule
- Observable errors may reference duplicates, such as:
"Unable to log an audit message. The audit log daemon nsrlogd running on host '<nsrserverhost>' is not configured to accept messages from this client. Check the audit log configuration."
Cause
- When NetWorker services start, checks are made in the resource database to ensure that all Default resources are present; if they are missing, such as if the server is started with the nsrdb directory containing the configuration objects missing or empty, they are automatically re-created with file names partially reflecting their creation time.
- If the nsrdb contents containing the same default items are copied into a folder, there will be two instances of the default items of the same name and type since their file names are different.
- This is most likely to occur during server disaster recovery, upgrade, rehosting, or reinstallation.
Resolution
- Identify the resource identifiers or filenames with common sections:
RAP resource identifier: 9th-12th decimal-separated field, for example 4.0.92.34.0.0.0.0.189.228.121.101.10.3.37.150RAP filename: 17th-24th characters, e.g 04005c2200000000bde479650a032596
- Shutdown NetWorker services
- Move all such files to a temporary location and review the contents
- Once satisfied, restart NetWorker services and review active configuration
Generally, NetWorker RAP resources are not expected to have multiple instances of a given type. One exception is client objects, where multiple instances of the same client may exist for different workflows and with different savesets, so forth.
Affected Products
NetWorker FamilyArticle Properties
Article Number: 000222887
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 06 أبريل 2026
Version: 2
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