One night a bit back our NW4.11 server froze during backup. Not a problem, came in the next day down and restarted the server, no problem. Ever since then however I’ve been unable to get a backup process to run. What happens is that the backup process starts(in this case Arcserve 6.1), it gives an FAT error writing to the Arcserver activity log file. The message is Failed to Open Activity Log, /SYS:Arcserve.6\arch$svr.log. It keeps attempting to access to activity log every few seconds… which of course means no one else is logging in while the server ‘sits and spins’. It eventually fails to write to the directory and dismounts the SYS volume. Upon restart I’m able to go into Arcserve management and view the activity log no problem. I really hoped that the Vrepair would resolve the issue but it hasn’t. Vrepair ran for a VERY long time and found/repaired alot of errors. I haven’t run a DSRepair since I ran the Vrepair(did run one way back at the start of this problem). At first I thought the problem was local to Arcserve, possibly some corruption but even starting SBACKUP which is the builtin Novell backup software I get the same types of errors writing to the SYS volume. Users are not experiencing any problem writing/reading from their directories on the SYS volume, there are no other issues happening the server seems stable in every other way, but the longer we go without a backup the more concerned I am.
I’d appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
