fulcostiva Posted May 19, 2011 Report Share Posted May 19, 2011 Nice trick to get rid of issues: start a new Forum without porting the old messages. Groom still fails (7.7.562) the same way as before (see thread "Grooming misery" 'forum.dantz.com' 'Server, SBS and Multi Server' started on 1 November 2010) Grooming misery For some years now Grooming "Disk Backup Sets" starts damaging the Backup Set. First a new "Disk Backup Set" is created (on a newly formatted, NTFS (NOT compressed) hard disk). After the Backup Set reaches its limit, errors start to appear. These range from ".. you must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog" to Assert errors. Sometimes a "Catalog repair" solves the issue. An example: + Executing Hamlet Groom (HDx) at 18/05/2011 13:19 (Execution unit 1) Grooming Backup Set Server (HD2)... Groomed zero KB from Backup Set Server (HD2). Grooming Backup Set Server (HD2) failed, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) 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 Server (HD2), error -1 ( unknown) 18/05/2011 13:20:18: 2 execution errors Duration: 00:00:35 (00:00:01 idle/loading/preparing) + Executing Rebuild at 18/05/2011 13:22 (Execution unit 1) To Backup Set Server (HD2)... 18/05/2011 16:12:39: Execution completed successfully Completed: 528786 files, 752.3 GB Performance: 4736.0 MB/minute Duration: 02:49:40 (00:07:01 idle/loading/preparing) + Executing Hamlet Groom (HDx) at 18/05/2011 16:28 (Execution unit 1) Grooming Backup Set Server (HD2)... Grooming Backup Set Server (HD2) 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 Server (HD2), error -1 ( unknown) 18/05/2011 16:52:35: 2 execution errors Duration: 00:23:45 (00:02:07 idle/loading/preparing) I followed the advice in "Grooming Tips and Troubleshooting (9629)" (1) >30Gb on C: (system) (2) Catalog files are stored on separate disk (D: Not disks containing .rdb files) (3) C: (system) and D: (Catalog files) are continually defragmented. (4) once a week. (5) 3, 4 or "Defined Policy" (7) Done often (8) 32 Gb RAM (9) 10% of disk-space for disks containing .rdb files, C and D more than 50% free space (10,11) all disks are in server Fulco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulcostiva Posted June 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 And again: What happens (most recent first): + Executing Grooming at 08/06/2011 15:00 (Execution unit 1) Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD)... Backup Set format inconsistency (10 at 2365627632) Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD) failed, error -2242 ( Catalog File duplicated or ambiguous) You must recreate the Backup Set's Catalog File. See the Retrospect User's Guide or online help for details on recreating Catalog Files. 08/06/2011 15:00:36: Execution incomplete I try to open the Backup Set Disk03 (HD): error -2259 (incomplete grooming detected) I want to reset the Backup Set, but can't open the Properties! + Executing Disk Groom (HDx) at 08/06/2011 14:41 (Execution unit 1) Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD)... Backup Set format inconsistency (10 at 2365627632) Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD) failed, error -2242 ( Catalog File duplicated or ambiguous) 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 Disk03 (HD), error -1 ( unknown) 08/06/2011 14:55:10: 3 execution errors Duration: 00:12:43 (00:00:17 idle/loading/preparing) Creating log file: rdb_del.log 44KB file in 1_Disk03 (HD) folder + Executing Rebuild at 08/06/2011 11:15 (Execution unit 1) To Backup Set Disk03 (HD)... 08/06/2011 13:01:58: Execution completed successfully Completed: 443002 files, 506.2 GB Performance: 5077.3 MB/minute Duration: 01:46:47 (00:04:41 idle/loading/preparing) + Executing Disk Groom (HDx) at 08/06/2011 11:12 (Execution unit 1) Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD)... Groomed zero KB from Backup Set Disk03 (HD). Grooming Backup Set Disk03 (HD) failed, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) 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 Disk03 (HD), error -1 ( unknown) 08/06/2011 11:13:29: 2 execution errors Duration: 00:01:02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 How big is the catalog file? How much free space is on the C: disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulcostiva Posted June 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2011 I follow kbArticle # 9629 to the letter: (1) C drivehas 50% free space (>100Gb) (2) Catalogfiles are stored on D, also > 50% free space (100Gb) Catalog file size: after Recycle 180 Mb, after severalBackups <500 Mb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulcostiva Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) From Roxio support: Grooming is a destructive process. Grooming every twoweeks would be considered too often and can potentially cause missing files,corruption, and further problems with the program when attempting to continueusing the backup set. From kb 4) Don't groom too often. Grooming will automaticallyremove data when the destination disk fills up. If you want to make sure thedisk never fills, create a grooming script (Automate>Manage Scripts>New)to run once a week. Grooming every day is typically not needed. It says 'once a week'. And, I do have a disk based backup set, that wasn'tgroomed at all. The grooming started, automatically, when the backup setreached its limits. There is definitely something wrong with the Groomingprocess. Fulco Edited July 4, 2011 by Fulco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sconstantine Posted July 6, 2011 Report Share Posted July 6, 2011 I have experienced a similar issue and behavior. My primary config difference is I have a LUN mounted as an NTFS mounted folder underneath the root. Grooming incorrectly detects the free space of the mounted sub-volume but rather the root volume. I 2nd the suggestion to revisit the logic in the Grooming process~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastercam Posted December 4, 2012 Report Share Posted December 4, 2012 I'm seeing this more and more. Does version 8 resolve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnymacgo Posted December 5, 2012 Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 There is a fix to some grooming issues in Retrospect for Windows V8.0. From the release notes located here: http://kb.retrospect.com/articles/en_US/Retrospect_Article/Retrospect-8-for-Windows-Release-Notes/?q=8.0+windows+release+notes&l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1 "2413: Fixed a bug that caused repeat occurrences of Grooming error -2241 even after catalog rebuilds" I groom my disk backup sets once a week and run into grooming issues every other month or so. I end up recycling the disk backup set and then do a Transfer Backup Set from my most recent tape backup set to the newly recycled disk backup set. It's a pain to do but I'm not ready to move to V8 yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'm seeing this more and more. Does version 8 resolve this? No. although, I haven't tried transferring my backup sets (created in 7.7) to a new one yet... using existing backups sets which have these errors still plays up under RS8 Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulco Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Am I glad, I didn't pay the extortionate amount of money for this bug fix! Again, they should FIX bugs and don't let user who bought version 7.7, pay! Fulco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Look familiar? Grooming Backup Set ServicesDevBackups... Groomed 288.9 MB from Backup Set ServicesDevBackups. Grooming Backup Set ServicesDevBackups 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 ServicesDevBackups, error -1 ( unknown) 23/12/2012 13:54:37: 2 execution errors Duration: 00:33:08 (00:00:30 idle/loading/preparing) RS 8 Multi Server with BRAND NEW Backup set - a week old and only 76G in size..! The one good thing worth upgrading for is the Instant Scan feature. + Normal backup using Product Dev Desktops at 22/12/2012 06:32 (Execution unit 1) To Backup Set ProdDevBackups... - 22/12/2012 06:32:45: Copying Local Disk (C:) on Alan ***** (T3500 W7) Using Instant Scan 22/12/2012 06:45:37: Snapshot stored, 235.3 MB 22/12/2012 06:45:50: Execution completed successfully Completed: 1220 files, 301.6 MB, with 48% compression Performance: 361.8 MB/minute Duration: 00:13:04 (00:12:13 idle/loading/preparing) Although it's not so good when your CVS server is reporting 28,000 errors! - 21/12/2012 23:10:42: Copying Data (E:) on CVS Server Using Instant Scan *Lots and lots of file not found / missing errors* 22/12/2012 00:00:47: Snapshot stored, 254.4 MB 22/12/2012 00:01:09: 28,383 execution errors Remaining: 8954 files, 60.6 GB Completed: 71 files, 252.3 MB, with 0% compression Performance: 149.8 MB/minute Duration: 00:50:26 (00:48:44 idle/loading/preparing) 22/12/2012 00:01:30: 28,384 execution errors Total performance: 468.5 MB/minute with 35% compression Total duration: 01:01:06 (00:53:08 idle/loading/preparing) Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Lee Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 *Lots and lots of file not found / missing errors* In case of Instant Scan, these errors are due to temporary files that existed during scan but no longer during backup. Tech Support can provide a pre-release that avoids such errors, as well as fixing certain grooming related assertion failures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Hi David; My logs were from our CVS server, which is backed up at 8pm via a script and no developers are making changes to the file structure. Some of these errors include the follow - certainly not temporary files, but may have potentially been changed during the working day. File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_blue\active\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_blue\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_blue\inactive\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_blue\inactive\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\active\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\active\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\inactive\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\imgs\dhxwins_dhx_skyblue\inactive\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\skins\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\html\widgets\dhtmlxWindows\codebase\skins\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\widgets\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\widgets\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\widgets\dhtmlx\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) File "E:\build\ConnectAdminArea\Connect_5.1\BuildArea\edgeConnect5_1_0__32\Source\Connect\widgets\Floating Window (dhtmlx)\templates\widgets\dhtmlx\CVS\": can't read security information, error -1101 ( file/directory not found) So with Instant Scan, when does the scan take place for all these files to change? Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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