A. ``WISS" refers to the
media index. Greg Feczko's email (17 Sep 1999) explains what the acronym
means.
WISS stands for Wisconsin
Storage System, a program Legato purchased from (if I remember correctly)
a college in Wisconsin, that was modified for Legato's use. The reason
they chose it was because its highly tuned for insertions.
Similar error messages:
unable to start nsrd
exited on signal 11"
daemons dieing
various save errors
Dr Watson error
A. Legato Tech Bulletin #352
also sets out a number of steps to follow to fix corruption with media
indices.
K. Scott Rowe's answer (24
Mar 2000) also has some tips:
You need to run nsrck -F
to 'attempt' to fix the error, which generally occurs only when the database
grows over 2GB. If this does not work, you then have two options:
-
Delete the index.db and run
nsrck -c, this generates a blank index.db for you, and you can then run
your backups.
-
Run and mmrecov to restore the
last good database. Please run nsrck -F on this database as well, just
to make sure everything is clean for Networker.
Also see the
``Index Corruption" section for further details about solving this problem.
For a Solaris-specific cause,
see 7.4.4, Why does Networker seem to hang?