Client Retries

If the Backup server cannot make a connection with a client, the Client Retries attribute in the Groups resource specifies the number of times that the server should try to connect to the client before the effort should be considered a failure. The first retry does not occur until after an attempt has been made to contact each client (at a minimum). The Inactivity Timeout attribute in the Groups resource specifies the number of minutes that the Backup server waits for evidence of backup activity on the client. If the server has not received status information for longer than the time specified, the server abandons the backup operation for the save set.

The backup of an abandoned save set might be completed, but the automated report from savegrp does not show that the backup is completed. For example, if the client is being backed up over a network filesystem (NFS) connection and the NFS server crashes and reboots, the Backup backup hangs until it times out. The Backup server marks the save set "abandoned," but when the NFS server comes back up, the backup continues and is completed.

The preconfigured attributes for the Default group are described in "Groups Resource ". You can make changes to any Default group attribute, but you cannot delete the group. You can, however, create or delete as many customized groups as you need.