Error while reconstructing Backup-Set from disc

[Domski]

Hello,

 

We had a Disc-To-Disc-To-Disc backup strategy in our company with Multi Server 7.6.1.101. We have a 2TB Thecus-NAS to store the daily rotation backup set and system images and so on. The important data is stored in a extra backup set, which is replicated from the NAS to a backup set on external disc daily. These disc was directly connected to the backup server via USB.

 

While migrating to a VMWare esx environment, the backupserver moved to a virtual machine. All is working fine, but i cannot access the external disc anymore.

 

My idea was to connect the disc to a Samba-Server and mount the disc as network share on the backup server. This failed with the following error: "The name of the backupset-datafile is invalid. The catalog could not refreshed with this data."(Translation from german message). This message came up while reconstructing the backup set from disc in Retrospect. The old catalog file has been removed before. I tried the integrated Samba from the Thecus NAS and sets up also an own Samba on a Debian box. Nothing worked.

 

Connecting the same disc to my Windows XP Workstation and mounting the share to the backup server, the reconstruction of the backup set was successful. But i have no physical windows servers in my rack anymore. Does my samba-config cause this trouble?

 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Markus

Edited October 20, 2008 by Guest

[Mayoff]

If you are switching from USB to a NAS connection, the path has now changed. You may need to perform a catalog rebuild under the new configuration.

[Domski]

I performed the rebuild with the new path \\nas\share\ and it failed with the message given above when using a samba share. Sharing the disc from a windows client, all went ok.