ADSM-L

Re: /usr and a mystery exclude

1999-11-04 21:51:00
Subject: Re: /usr and a mystery exclude
From: Tony Rynan <tonyr AT AU1.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 2:51 PM
>Hi Paul,
>
>We saw this problem on 4.3 boxes being caused by the automountd/autofs
>daemon. I can't remember the exact circumstances of our problem but we
>disabled autofs and started using static NFS mounts instead.
>
>regards Tonyr
>
>
>
>Here's an interesting one.  We have a handful of AIX 4.3 boxes, we just
>noticed that they aren't backing up /usr or /usr/local anymore.
>I go in and try to do an incremental, I get an ANR4014E error (internal
>system error).  I do an incr on a subdir of /usr (such as /usr/lpp)
>it works fine, then I go back and to an incr specifically on /usr and it
>now works fine.  Then I do a straight incr and everything in
>/usr gets expired again.  Then I go back to do another incr and we're back
>to the ANR40414E message again.
>
>- There's nothing in the include/exclude list excluding this stuff
>- I've checked to ensure it's using the correct dsm.sys, opt, and include
>list. (checked this one HARD)
>- I've checked to ensure the nodes aren't tied to a client options set.
>- When you do a q filespace on the server, it doesn't list the affected
>filesystems as even existing.
>
>Another sympom that's indirectly related is that a few files fail on backup
>claiming that the mgmt class they're bound to has no backup
>copygroup.  The default mgmt has a backup copygroup.
>
>It all seems to point to an exclude list somewhere that I can't find.  Any
>ideas?
>
>Later,
>Paul
>
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