Richard,

   I have deleted all filespaces before I have backed up the clients.
   The query content tells me that "No match found using this criteria".
   Furthermore I have done an selective backup with the DIRSONLY option.
   I have backed up Windows NT and Windows 98 clients.

Regards

Carsten Krax





Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> on 29.03.2000 14:00:34

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:      (bcc: Carsten Krax/Cologne/GECITS-EU)
Subject:  Re: Problems with DIRMC


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>The disk storage pool DIRPOOL for the directory information with the capacity
of
>1 MB does not fill on backup.
>Pct. Util. is 0.4% and does not change.
...
>On restore the corresponding volume (/dirpool/dir02.dsm) can be set off-line,
>nevertheless the restore is terminated successfully.

Carsten - Two issues are at play here...

1. In that there is data in the DIRPOOL already indicates that you performed a
   prior incremental backup of some kind which put something there.  We don't
   know what did it: if you do a Query CONtent for the volume, that should
   tell you.  Now, on normal incremental backups, there is no need to back up
   unchanged directories a second time, and indeed you would not want your
   server being bloated that way.  So the content of DIRPOOL would not change.
2. You didn't indicate what kind of clients are being backed up.  Remember
   that client types having simple directory structures can have the directory
   information stored entirely as *SM database entries: the directory storage
   pool is unnecessary and is unused.  Unix clients are this way.

 Richard Sims, BU