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NetVault Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) Live Client for Linux issue on low bandwidth network -
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Even though a BMR Live Client for Linux backup job completes successfully, a partition(s) might not be backed up if the following condition are met.Condition:- Very low disk space usage partition (for example, a separate partition for /home with only data of 1 new user during the initialization phase.)- Low bandwidth between NetVault server and client, such as over WAN.How to check for the issue: (Assuming the issue occurs on /home)*An example on the following configuration# df -HFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/mapper/rhel-root 49G 3.8G 45G 8% //dev/sda1 1.1G 187M 877M 18% /boot/dev/mapper/rhel-home 24G 39M 24G 1% /home# du -sk /home4612 /homeMethod1: Check the restore selection screen(WebUI | Create Restore Job | Select the saveset in question | Next)[In case of backup taken]
[In case of partition not backed up]
Method2: Check backup log (Review the “Successfully backup segment” messages)(WEbUI | Job Status | Select the job in question | View Logs | Display Level: All)[In case of backup taken]Successfully backup segment: TOCSuccessfully backup segment: rhel~rootSuccessfully backup segment: sda1Successfully backup segment: rhel~home[In case of partition not backed up]Successfully backup segment: TOCSuccessfully backup segment: rhel~rootSuccessfully backup segment: sda1The issue occurs on all supported versions of BMR Live Client for Linux 11.4 and prior.* Supported versions are 4.2.5, 10.0.0, 10.5, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.4 and 12.0. (As of 2019/1/18)
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