Nathan,

It looks like you have found a case where this
particular scenario produces a return code that
is not reflected in the ERRORLEVEL return from
the excdsmc program.
Please contact IBM support to open a problem report
to get this "officially" reported.

Thanks,

Del Hoobler
IBM ADSM Agent Development
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

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> I am trying to write a simple batch job to reliably backup the Exchange
> Database.
> It executes the excdsmc /backup command and then checks the error level
upon
> completion before deciding what to do next.
> I was under the impression that anything higher than error level 0 would
be
> considered a failure.
> Today I attempted to run the script after the store had been defragged.
The
> script is designed to attempt an incremental backup and upon 3 successive
> failures to do a ful backup. It checks for failures by using the 'if not
> errorlevel 1' statement after the backup command line.
>
> However when the incremental backup failed (after a defrag exchange
requires
> a full backup) it gave a return code of 0 (A success message).
>
> Why is this the case?
>
> Nathan