Hi *SM'ers, I'm facing a strange problem, and would like to know if somebody could give me an explanation ... The picture : We had a policy domain, named "NT" defined for Windows systems, that got only one mgmt class, called NT-SYSTEMS, copy group looking like that : NT ACTIVE NT-SYSTEM STANDARD 15 15 30 60, pointing to a disk pool called diskpool_win. I then was required to initiate new backups, for Microsoft SQL DB's. I thought it would not be necessary to create a new policy domain to do those backups, and just added new management classes and copy pools, looking like : NT ACTIVE MGMT-SQL-FULL STANDARD 6 0 No Limit No Limit, pointing directly to a tape pool called tapelto_sql_full, used for SQL full backups NT ACTIVE MGMT-SQL-LOG STANDARD 1 0 No Limit No Limit , pointing to a disk pool named diskpool_sql_logs, size 4 GB, used for SQL log backups NT ACTIVE MGMT-SQL-META STANDARD 6 0 No Limit No Limit, pointing to a disk pool named diskpool_sql_meta, size 1MB, used for SQL meta data I activated, and validated the whole stuff, and next night, got all my NT nodes having backup status "failed". After some headscratching, I found my problem was due to the fact that all directory data was sent to diskpool_sql_meta, which was too small, and had no migration pool. So far I agreed : directory data had took the management class having the longest retention period. I then built a new disk storage pool, named diskpool_dir, size 4 GB, attached to a new Mgmt class looking like : NT ACTIVE MGMT-DIR STANDARD 15 15 No Limit No limit
And also defined a new client option set for NT nodes, specifying "DIRMC MGMT-DIR". Once again activated the whole thing, and had 3 peaceful nights ... until today. The event logger showed me some NT nodes had status "failed" for their backup, reason : "no space available". I then found that diskpool_meta was once again full, because those nodes had written directories path into it ! But that time I really can't understand what happened. Does anybody have a clue what happens here ? Zillion thanks in advance ! Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
