Corrupt files on NSS volume

[Steven Aitken]

I've seen this behaviour with client file caching enabled and always
turn it, as well as level 2 oplocks off on the server.

Check if they are enabled with:

Set client file caching enabled
Set level2 oplocks enabled

Cheers,

Steve 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Patrick Schmidt" <peschmid at mpsomaha.org>
To: Novell LAN Interest Group <novell at netlab1.oucs.ox.ac.uk>
To: Novell LAN Interest Group <novell at netlab1.usu.edu>

Sent: 08/12/2008 13:29:00
Subject: Corrupt files on NSS volume

We have a case where a large percentage of MS Office files (word .doc
and Excel .xls files) are corrupt. If you open a .doc file you see
nothing but rectangles. An Excel file shows a warning that it is not a
valid Excel file. Open it anyway and the workbook is blank. M$'s tools
for recovering corrupt files have not helped. We've been restoring
backups but have not yet nailed down a time frame as to when this might
have occurred. Most of these files are only accessed occasionally, which
explains why they were not noticed until now -- but they are still
important. I did to an nss /poolverify and rebuild to no avail. This is
a pool hosted on an older Compaq SAN. There is another volume on the
same pool that does not seem to have any corrupt files, and it also
stores user data with a lot of Office documents. We have restored
backups going back several months to a newly created volume on a newly
created pool, and docs are corrupt on the backups too.

It is a Netware 6.5 sp7 box, and we are using Galaxy for backup.

Has anyone else seen something like this?

Thanks



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Patrick Schmidt
Millard Public Schools
Network Support Specialist
(402)715-6278
peschmid at mpsomaha.org 
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