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VERITAS BACKUP HANG

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by gtobey

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I HAVE BEEN RUNNING VERITAS BACKUP FOR NT ON AN NT SERVER 4, BACKING UP DISK VOLUMES AND EXCHANGE SERVER INFORMATION. THE BACKUP RUNS FIVE TIMES PER WEEK USUALLY WITHOUT A PROBLEM, BUT OCCASIONALLY, EVERY TWO OR THREE WEEKS OR SO, HANGS UP DURING THE "BACKUP SCAN" PHASE. AT THAT POINT, I HAVE TO RESTART NT SERVER TO KILL THE JOB SINCE THE ABORT FUNCTION IN THE SOFTWARE DOES NOT WORK. THE SAME BACKUP JOB WILL THEN RUN SUCCESSFULLY. ANY IDEA WHAT MAY CAUSE THE HANG DURING THE "BACKUP SCAN" WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

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by graham marwood

Assuming you've have the scsi terminated ok, have plenty of free disk space, swap file a decent size.
If the PC has been running ok in the same configuration could you move the backup software / hardware to a differnt box to norrow the problem down.

by gtobey

There is no alternative box to run the backup upon. I will try the idea about the swap file size.

Any other thoughts?

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