Be aware that both the summary table and Event log can show false
success for scheduled backups.
I have had experience with the summary table showing success for backups
where the actlog shows failure. IBM tells me that it is working as
designed.
I have not had experience with false success in the Event log, but Wanda
tells me that it is so and I believe her.
Richard Sims is correct, though. The things you find in the server tell
you about definite problems. Much of what the server knows about client
activity is based on what the Client reports back. The Client does not
fail backups just because files fail. Where I am going with this is,
that if you want to look at a report on the server of Missed/Failed,
look deeper. If something Misses or Fails, you know you have a problem.
But, just because you have successful backups, does not me there is no
problem.
You can query the actlog as follows and get information like this, which
comes from the Client. Even that will not identify many of the things
Richard mentioned. If you have excluded a directory or domain, the
Client will smilingly report success.
tsm: AIXPROD65>server1xyz: q act node=ClientServerXYZ begind=-2
ANR1699I Resolved server1xyz to 1 server(s) - issuing command Q ACT
NODE=ClientServerXYZ BEGIND=-2 against server(s).
ANR1687I Output for command 'Q ACT NODE=ClientServerXYZ BEGIND=-2 '
issued against server server1xyz follows:
Date/Time Message
--------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
10/13/2009 09:26:17 ANE4005E (Session: 2495820, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Error
processing
'\\somefiler\somedept\Users\someuser\ABC_9.2.0 -
Serusaem
NainocarD\ABC\CMA\CYA\stardotext_someuser_20034-
.xls': file not found
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4952I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects inspected: 8,690,541
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4954I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects backed up: 14,904
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4958I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects updated: 0
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4960I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects rebound: 0
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4957I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects deleted: 0
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4970I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects expired: 1,936
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4959I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of objects failed: 4
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4965I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of subfile objects: 0
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4961I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Total
number of bytes transferred: 40.36 GB
(SESSION: 2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4963I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Data
transfer time: 711.79 sec
(SESSION:
2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4966I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Network
data transfer rate: 59,465.00 KB/sec
(SESSION:
2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4967I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Aggregate
data transfer rate: 725.91 KB/sec
(SESSION:
2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4968I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Objects
compressed by: 0% (SESSION:
2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4969I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Subfile
objects reduced by: 0% (SESSION:
2491225)
10/13/2009 11:06:32 ANE4964I (Session: 2491225, Node:
ClientServerXYZ) Elapsed
processing time: 16:11:47 (SESSION:
2491225)
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Tribe
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Querying status of a finished process
Hello,
I'm a beginner with TSM and this question might be very basic. However,
I wasn't able to find the answer in the documentation, so here's my
question:
I'm using TSM 5.5 and want to run all commands through the dsmadmc
command line. I'm backing up and restoring NAS nodes.
I found ways to start backups and query running processes (query process
<ID>), but I don't know how to query the status of finished processes. I
just want a simple way to figure out if a backup / restore was
successful. If I use the "query process <ID>" after the job finished, it
just tells me "Process cannot be found".
There must be a simple way to do that, right? I know that I can query
the actlog, but is there a better / easier way to do this, given a
process id?
Thanks,
Jan
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