Thanks Efim. I did not think to look there. I have included it in my opt file and will look for the results this weekend in my ARCHIVE.
Thanks Adrian Compton Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth Tel: +27 (0) 41 407 2070 Fax: +27 (0) 41 453 7452 Cell: 082 320 4495 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is solely for the named addressee. Any unauthorised use or interception of this email, or the review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon the contents of this email, by persons or entities other than the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the named addressee please notify us immediately by way of a reply e-mail, and also delete this email and any attached files. Disclaimer: You must scan this email and any attached files for viruses and/or any other defects. Pharmacare Limited accepts no liability for any loss, damages or consequence, whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic, however caused, and whether by negligence or otherwise, which may result directly or indirectly from this communication or of any attached files. Efim <[EMAIL PROTECTED] R.RU> To Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: [ADSM-L] Full Incremental Rotations 29/08/06 14:42 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Abrian, concernin WEBSM: Problem DB growing rapidly when backup or archiving /usr. Operations such as backup, archive and delete archive can fail with errors ANS3008E ; Too many symbolic links or ANS5023E Not enough memory Cause recursive symlinks on circular linked directories of WEBSM product Solution A deeper look into /usr shows a link called /usr/websm/html/en_US/wsmship/ that points to /usr/websm. These files are from WEBSM product and the structure under /usr is normal (more that 40 levels of subdirectories with wsmship symbolic link). TSM follows the link and puts the operation in a loop and the result is that TSM is inspecting more objects than exists and the operation can abort due to many links or not enough memory. The solution is to use archsymlinkasfile no in dsm.opt for archive operations and exclude lines for backup operations. For example : exclude /usr/websm/html/en_US/wsmship/* Efim * Adrian Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:41:37 +0200]: > Hi There, > > I want to ensure I am implementing the best possible strategy for TSM > backups. > Has anyone implemented this successfully as described in the > Full-Incremental Rotations Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager field guide > from IBM. > > I am using a copy storage pool , and perform a full backup weekly, and > incrementals during the week. In addition I do an archive on the last > Sunday of each month. All AIX. > Would this constitute best practice. > > Another side issue - Has anyone encountered recursive backing up of > linked > directories in AIX. I have a directory called websm that seems to go > into > an endless loop. > Any ideas how to rid of this error with out excluding the said > directory. > > Regards > > Adrian Compton > > Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth > Tel: +27 (0) 41 407 2070 > Fax: +27 (0) 41 453 7452 > Cell: 082 320 4495 > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email is solely for the named > addressee. Any unauthorised use or interception of this email, or the > review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any > action in reliance upon the contents of this email, by persons or > entities > other than the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the > named > addressee please notify us immediately by way of a reply e-mail, and > also > delete this email and any attached files. > > Disclaimer: You must scan this email and any attached files for viruses > and/or any other defects. Pharmacare Limited accepts no liability for > any > loss, damages or consequence, whether direct, indirect, consequential or > economic, however caused, and whether by negligence or otherwise, which > may > result directly or indirectly from this communication or of any attached > files.