RPC Error Unable to Send

[eeicai]

Hi,

I'm having a probelem with a particular server, not in the last 2 weeks can I get a FULL backup - I receive

{Client1} C: RPC Error Unable to Send.
{Client1} E: RPC Error Unable to Send
{Client1} save failed on E:\....\....\....\....\...

C drive has 6GB free and E drive has 2+GB free.
Would the E Drive error relate to Networker bombing out on long file names?

Any ideas please?
Many thanks
C

 

[605]

This looks more than a network related problem. Can you do manual backups from the client at all?

 

[eeicai]

Hi,
This is strange. I reran a FULL on this client and it succeeded on the C drive whereas earlier it failed.
At the moment it is at 4GB on the E drive (out of 80GB) and is continuing. By the way all INCR's are successful.

 

[eeicai]

After getting to 19GB, the server failed on the FULLbackup.
Same error again - RPC Error Unable to Send.
Would it have something to do with the network as opposed to the backup software?

 

[comtec17]

This is definetly network related. Do you have multiple NIC's in your client or server?

 

[TDun]

Check the NIC card(s). Make sure that you are not using auto-negotiate on either end (and are using te same on both ends, e.g. 100Mbit full-duplex).

 

[eeicai]

Thanks guys, I will chek this.
The server has one PCI network card that is live and also (not in use) 2 onboard network connextions.

 

[eeicai]

Thanks TDun - I have checked the server, one end is at 100MB Full and the other end 'Auto'. Because it's in a live environment and it's NT, it needs to be rebooted after hours.
The server is also receiving a lot of collisions but has passed an INCR backup.
Once done, I'll attempt another FULL on it.

 

[eeicai]

Excellent advice and many thanks.
After setting both ends of the server to 100Full, I kicked off a FULL backup last night. In the last few minutes it completed successfully! all 98GB.
Appreciate all the help
C

 

[huffmabc]

comtec17 - I am having this same problem with a Windows client that has multiple interfaces. It's somewhat random since this server was backing up fine a week ago, and now it won't complete. What is the concern with multiple interfaces?
Thanks-
b