Kevin, Hmm.. well, There was a proggie running in the background ( that expireblocks script ), but everything in the scheduled tasks has been moved outside of the backup window. There is NT compression turned on one folder, I dunno if that's what you're referring to, or the compression that the TSM client can do. We're removing NT compression on the folder in question and will see what happens tonight.
-ed >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/01 11:50AM >>> We've experienced the same thing (relatively) and it turned out to be a conflict with another program that was running in the background during the backup window. Might be worth a look...Also, make sure client side compression and encryption is off. ;) Kevin. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Anderson Sent: December 5, 2001 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Event log Vs. Q filespace f=d Folks, I'm going to try and make what's going on as clear as possible, if I don't, please ask for elaboration. I hope one or more of y'all can lend me some insight as to exactly what is going on here. I have a node ( NT4.SP6, TSM client 4.2.1 ) which begins backing up during it's scheduled backup window ( which is 2 hours long ), but doesn't finish until 6 hours later. This node seems to lie dormant from about 15minutes into its scheduled startup window until 5 hours later at which point it successfully finishes its daily incremental. So, this being the case the command "q event * * begindate=-1 begintime=17:30 enddate=today endtime=08:00 " ( our scheduled backups run from 17:30 to about 05:00 ) yields a status of either "Failed" or "<?>". But a "q filespace PROBLEMNODE f=d" Says that the "Last Backup Completion Date/Time : " was this morning. Has anyone seen this where the event log and "q filespace NODE f=d" conflict? Any ideas about this at all? Here's some more info you may find helpful. TSM Server = Solaris 2.6, TSM Server Version 4.1.4 Client Node = NT4 SP6, TSM Client 4.2.1 ( FYI, the node is running Oracle, but we don't have TDP for Oracle. The machine is making DB Dumps ( from the way that I understand it ), the dsm.opt/sys file has excluded Oracle's Data Directories, but it is supposed to have the Dump Files included ). The Actlog doesn't have much useful info, it shows the Scheduled Session start, And then starts the ANE495?I Messsages about how many files backed up, total size of the backup, etc. Our Maxsessions are set at 50, and the maxschedsessions is 25. We have 20 NT nodes during the aforementioned scheduled startup window, but I haven't seen anything in the actlog about the maximum number of possible sessions being reached. What we've done so far to try and rectify the situation : 1) Upgraded the TSM client from 4.1.2 to 4.2.1 2) Stopped some of the tasks running from the Task Scheduler on the NT machine ( it was doing an "Expire Blocks" every 15minutes, I hope that means something to you Oracle folks ) it was my belief at first that this was the process on the box that was causing the backup to fail/ lie dormant for 5 hours. 3) Increased the backup window to 2 hours from 1 hour. ( it's now from 23:00 to 01:00 ) Sorry to dump all that on you, I'm about to call support and they're usually pretty good, but the folks on the list have that "real world" experience, you know? Thanks a million, Ed Anderson
