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AraxiSysStateBackup fails intermittantly on secondary servers


Product

  Prinergy Connect 2.0 ; Prinergy Direct 2.0 ; Prinergy Access 2.0 ; Prinergy PowerPack 1.0

Platform

 

Operating system

 


Error

 

On the primary server, the %AraxiHome%\CreoAraxi\System\Log\Backup\AraxiSystemBackup.log file shows this error message:

Fri Mar 29 03:13:33 2002 Start remote system state backup on: SYDPSR001

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002 *** Error: The AraxiSysStateBackup service could not be started on server: SYDPSR001.

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002 *** Explanation: The system backup attempted to start the above service and failed.

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002 *** Solution: This is usually caused by a username/password error in the account

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002 the service runs under. Check the properties of the service and ensure these values

Fri Mar 29 03:18:38 2002 are correct. Try to manually start the service.

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On the secondary server where the AraxiSysStateBackup service is failing, the %AraxiHome%\CreoAraxi\Bin\AraxiSysStateBackupService.log file shows this error message:

NTBackup: cmdLine: ntbackup backup SystemState /f "E:\AraxiBackup\SysStateBackup.bkf" /d "SystemState Backup at 01-05-2002 03:14" /v:no /r:no /l:f /m normal /rs:no /hc:off

hProcess: 568

Enumerating processes on \\SYDPSR001

Enumerating processes on \\SYDPSR001

NTBackup: Backup cancelled.

Wed May 01 03:14:06 2002 exception caught in doRealWork .. suppressing ..

Exception in process 2540, thread 2472 Traceback (innermost last): File "D:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\python\com\creo\araxi\NTBackup\AraxiSysStateBackupService.py", line 215, in doRealWork AraxiSysStateBackup.main() File "D:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\python\com\creo\araxi\NTBackup\AraxiSysStateBackup.py", line 160, in main AraxiSysStateBackup() File "D:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\python\com\creo\araxi\NTBackup\AraxiSysStateBackup.py", line 78, in AraxiSysStateBackup if (backup.Run(media, FALSE)): File "D:\Prinergy2.0.4\lib\python\com\creo\araxi\NTBackup\NTBackup.py", line 173, in Run sys.exit(1) SystemExit: 1


Symptoms

 

1) The AraxiSysStateBackup service is failing to start on one or several secondary servers during the system backup with the error messages shown.

2) The NTBackup log file on the secondary servers appears to be truncated in the middle of the backup.


Cause

  The system backup script on the primary server attempts to stop the AraxiSysStateBackup service on the secondary server and then start the AraxiSysStateBackup service. When the stop service request is sent to the Service Control Manager on the secondary server, the script does not wait for any return value, before it sends the start service request. In some cases, the start service request arrives at the secondary server before the stop service request. The stop service request then stops the service, terminating the system state backup of the secondary.


Solution

 

This problem has been fixed in Prinergy 2.1.0.0.

Permanent fix:


See also

 


Keywords

 

backup


Technical contact(s)
 

Stan Yoshida

Submitted by
 

Stan Yoshida

Date submitted
 

03 Jul 2002


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