Try running a scheduler in each cluster group.  That way the backups
will happen even if the groups are not on their "normal" nodes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:Duane.Ochs AT QG DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:55 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Client : MS Cluster active - active

We did a test and failed the drives from one cluster node to the other
and
the same results, the next scheduled backup only backed up the base
directories with no errors.

Previous day 1.4 million files scanned 21,000+ backed up, day the drives
were failed only 10 files scanned 1 backed up and no error messages.

Scheduler service is not defined in the cluster service, Because the
backup
schedules for these systems would not complete in 12 hours if both
devices
were backed up from one of the two cluster nodes.

Duane

-----Original Message-----
From: John Monahan [mailto:JMonahan AT COMPURES DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:17 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Client : MS Cluster active - active


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/13/2003
09:44:48 AM:

> TSM Server 5.1.6.2 ( AIX)
> TSM Client 5.1.5.15 (W2K cluster)
>
> Cluster node a - Has drive f$
> Cluster node b - Has drive g$
>
> To apply patches to the systems, nodea f$ is failed to node b, patches
> applied to nodea and rebooted, f$ and g$ are failed to node a, Node b
then
> gets patch and rebooted then g$ is failed back to node b.
>
> At this point, backups can not be performed on either f$ or g$, only
the
top
> level directories are backed up and no failures are indicated in the
Client
> log or the TSM server activity log.

Only top level directories are backed up on f: and g:?  How do you know
this?


> Each node has a scheduler, If I restart the schedulers the scheduled
backups
> run fine at next schedule.

What schedmode are you using?  Is your scheduler service defined in
cluster
administrator?

What if you do a failover without doing the patches part, does the same
thing happen?