Backup job seems to hang or stuck
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Symptom
Backup job seems to hang up or gets stuck either in Jobs › Active Jobs, or in Clients › Summary under the Active Jobs column. Possibly other jobs are waiting behind these backup jobs.
Troubleshooting
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Go to Jobs › Active Jobs, right-click the job, and then click Client Properties.
Note what file the job seems to be hung up on.
Note
It is possible that the job is performing very slowly rather than completely hung up. Monitor the Client Properties window for a moment to ensure the client is completely hung up. -
Go to Jobs › Active Jobs, right-click the job, and then click Message Logs.
Note if there are any errors in the Message Logs.
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Go to Support, and review the
server.xml
log to see if there are any error messages associated with this client and backup. -
Restart the services on either the client or the CFA, or both.
For more information on how to properly do this, see How to restart backup service on the CFA or agent.
If the client seems to hang up repeatedly:
Again, note which file the client seems to be hanging up on, especially if it is the same file each time. (See Client Properties above.)
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Go to Clients › Edit.
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Select the affected client, and then click the “pencil” button in the Backup group.
Check to see if VSS and Include Writers are selected.
Other things to consider
Waiting for Media
Jobs › Active Jobs, see the Status column.
If status is Waiting for Media, right-click the job, and then click Message Logs.
Review any error messages present.
Note
System State backup (ntbackup
) running out of space. (This only affects older versions. Infrascale Disaster Recovery 3.4 and later uses VSS for System State Backup, not ntbackup
.)
Jobs › Active Jobs, right-click the job, and then click Message Logs.
If the last message is: CLIENT-FileIO: WSS: System state will be saved to C:\Program Files\RVX-Backup\sysstate\systemstate.bkf
.
Clients › Summary, right-click the client, and then click Properties.
If there is no current file (it may say ‘null’):
When looking at the Message Logs, if the client appears to be hanging in systemstate
backup. The most likely cause is ntbackup
running out of space, or some other error, and hanging. Please check the C: drive for space and the event log for other possible ntbackup
errors. You can also log into session 0 and see if ntbackup
has popped up an error dialog.
Note