{"id":4751,"date":"2013-04-16T06:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:13:02","slug":"basics-old-savegroup-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/basics-old-savegroup-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics – Old Savegroup Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long time ago, in a NetWorker far, far away, all the output of a savegroup was included in the notification it generated. Eventually, this was determined to be too problematic \u2013 when it worked, it was good, but if a group had some major issue (or someone turned on the verbose flag), notification messages could be extremely large.<\/p>\n

This led to the “X lines suppressed” message that would appear in savegroup notifications, and for a while you could establish an option in \/nsr\/debug to turn message suppression off if you really<\/em> wanted the full details of the savegroup.<\/p>\n

Eventually though, for reasons unknown to sensible people, such suppression-disabling disappeared entirely, until \/nsr\/tmp\/sg<\/strong> turned up, which would contain a list of directories named after savegroups and the most recent notifications generated by those groups. After a while, savegroup suppression was turned off<\/em> for the details saved into that directory.<\/p>\n

With the release of NetWorker 8, the tmp\/sg group has been moved to a more logical location \u2013 \/nsr\/logs\/sg<\/strong>, and the filenames cleaned up somewhat.<\/p>\n

While there’s a command line tool now (nsrsgcomp) which will pull back old savegroup notifications, if you want to get to the real guts of the messages, you can go browse the \/nsr\/logs\/sg<\/strong> directory:<\/p>\n

\"\/nsr\/logs\/sg<\/a>Listing any directory will get you a selection of files such as the following:<\/p>\n

\"\/nsr\/logs\/sg<\/a>By themselves, the filenames are hardly interesting. However, because each message that appeared in a recent savegroup is stored in these files, it does make plain text searching fairly straight forward:<\/p>\n

\"\/nsr\/logs\/sg<\/a><\/p>\n

If you’re searching for errors to see how commonly they’ve occurred across all your clients for instance, it becomes as simple as going into the \/nsr\/tmp\/sg directory then running a search for the string across “*\/*” \u2013 all files in all subdirectories. Simple, quick, and efficient.<\/p>\n

If you’re wanting to increase the number of days that messages are kept for, edit the NetWorker server properties (not the server’s client instance) and increase the “Jobsdb retention in days”:<\/p>\n

\"jobsdb<\/a><\/p>\n

Be careful though \u2013 it’s generally recommended not to have this set to too long a period of time. (I’m somewhat curious if this restriction\/recommendation has been removed with the adoption of SQLite for the jobs database). If you want to search back longer, you may want to setup a process which automatically copies these files into another directory for longer term preservation \u2013 or for casual searches, recover older versions of the directory to alternate locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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