>-----Original Message-----
>
>Ok, yet another strange FTS problem.
>
>We're still running SQL 7.0 SP2 (can't upgrade yet) under
Windows 2000.
>We've had more than our share of FTS issues.
>
>So the latest is, on our primary, I build a brand new
catalog of our main
>table. No problems.
>
>4-5 days later, it finishes.
>
>So then I started the incremental. Ran no problem.
(before it appeared to
>run, but then never updated the catalog. More on that in
a moment.)
>
>Stop the service. Perform a copy of the files to a
backup location. (just
>in case something happens.)
>
>I restart the service. Next day I check and the
incremental has run, but
>there is no change in the catalog. (i.e. no new rows
added).
>
>Now that I think back, the last two times I rebuilt the
catalog I probably
>did the backup BEFORE I did my first incremental.
>
>So it looks like somehow stopping and then restarting the
MSSearch Service
>"breaks" my ability to perform incrementals.
>
>I've rebooted the server this morning and performed
another incremental.
>Again, no updates.
>
>
>Errors in the errorlog include:
>
>One or more warnings or errors for Gatherer project
<SQLServer
>SQL0000700005> logged to file
><e:\SQL_DATA\FTDATA\SQLServer\GatherLogs\SQL0000700005.5.g
thr>.
>
>Unable to access crawl seed
<MSSQL://LOCALHOST/7.194867811> in project
><SQLServer SQL0000700005>. Error: 8007042b - The process
terminated
>unexpectedly. .
>
>(those both occurred about 1 hour after the incremental
started)
>
>Then several hours when it's done:
>
>
>The description for Event ID ( 3047 ) in Source (
Microsoft Search ) cannot
>be found. The local computer may not have the necessary
registry information
>or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
computer. The
>following information is part of the event: SQLServer
SQL0000700005,
>6575312, 0, 20, 866.
>
>Detected 19 URLs that could not be reached or were denied
access in project
><SQLServer SQL0000700005>.
>
>The Gather log is:
>
>d1f7a4bf 1c3550d 4000000f 0 0
>578a229b 1c3550f 40000017 0 0
>dba48911 1c35516 MSSQL://LOCALHOST/7.194867811 8000000c 0
8007042b
>bf04d596 1c35529
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b60 8000000c 1
>80041201
>bf0e5eea 1c35529
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b5a 8000000c 1
>80041201
>bf0e5eea 1c35529
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b61 8000000c 1
>80041201
>bf10c13f 1c35529
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b65 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3cce1592 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b66 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3cd53c91 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b56 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3cda013b 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b68 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3cda013b 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b59 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3cdec5e5 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b58 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce38a8f 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b57 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce5ece4 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b55 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce5ece4 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b62 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce5ece4 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b5d 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce84f39 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b5c 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce84f39 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b64 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ce84f39 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b63 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ceab18e 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b5e 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ceab18e 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b5b 8000000c 1
>80041201
>3ceab18e 1c35538
mssql://localhost/7.194867811.896/004a6b67 8000000c 1
>80041201
>
>
>Help! I need an effective way to build this, perform
backups and continue
>to do incrementals.
>
>
>--
>--
>Greg D. Moore
>President Green Mountain Software
>Personal: http://stratton.greenms.com
>
>
>.