TERRYRICKETTS Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 We are running Retrospect 9.5.2.103 on two servers. For our workstations we presently have 21 backup sets. Each backup set is slightly over 1TB in size. They are all stored on a Dell PowerVault that is attached to the servers via scsi. Several times a month we need to groom the backup sets to gain enough room for the next weeks backups. Generally about half of the grooming jobs will fail; all at the same spot. That spot is just after the data has been removed and the catalog file is about to be adjusted. A check of the backup set always shows the data to be fine, and the error message tells us we need to rebuild the catalog file. In each case I will have the server rebuild the catalog file. Then to be sure everything is ok I will copy that backup set to a temporary store on a local NAS, and then copy it back. We never have a problem with rebuilding the catalog file, or the double copy. But the next time we groom about half of the jobs will fail again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 What is the error? Please provide an excerpt from the log file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TERRYRICKETTS Posted November 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Here are the appropriate errors from the logs for 5 of the grooms that ran last weekend: Grooming Backup Set Workstations H failed, error -2241 ( Catalog File invalid/damaged) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. Can't compress Catalog File for Backup Set Workstations H, error -1 ( unknown) 11/15/2014 3:52:41 PM: 2 execution errors Duration: 02:20:58 (00:25:52 idle/loading/preparing) 11/15/2014 3:52:41 PM: Script "Groom Workstations H" completed with 2 errors Grooming Backup Set Workstations E-F failed, error -2241 ( Catalog File invalid/damaged) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. 11/14/2014 7:07:21 PM: Execution incomplete Duration: 02:37:29 (00:46:28 idle/loading/preparing) Grooming Backup Set Workstations W-Z failed, error -2241 ( Catalog File invalid/damaged) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. 11/15/2014 3:13:48 PM: Execution incomplete Grooming Backup Set Workstations T-V failed, error -2241 ( Catalog File invalid/damaged) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. 11/15/2014 3:48:20 PM: Execution incomplete Duration: 02:01:13 (00:37:52 idle/loading/preparing) Grooming Backup Set Workstations S2 failed, error -2241 ( Catalog File invalid/damaged) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. 11/15/2014 2:28:12 PM: Execution incomplete Duration: 00:46:38 (00:22:04 idle/loading/preparing) The catalog files were fine prior to the grooming, and there were no complaints while the data was being groomed. Somehow at the end when the catalog file itself needed to be cleaned up it had a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I have occasionally been hit by that problem since at least version 7.6. Now on 9.5 it is still there. I would have expected it to be fixed by now. Anyway, all you can do is follow the instructions: "Recreate the Backup Set's catalog file". In version 7.6, that removed the backup set from all scripts where it was used. At least the scripts are now preserved in version 9.5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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