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Re: What does it backup?

2005-01-05 08:21:20
Subject: Re: What does it backup?
From: Rick Harderwijk <RHarderwijk AT FACTOTUMMEDIA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:20:48 +0100
Karel,

I had not taken registry and SystemObject into account, no. But those only 
amount to 300Mb...

Cheers,
Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> Behalf Of
> Bos, Karel
> Sent: woensdag 5 januari 2005 13:59
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: What does it backup?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's a Win2K server. Have you taken into account things like registry
> and SYSTEMOBJECT?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karel 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] 
> On Behalf Of
> Rick Harderwijk
> Sent: woensdag 5 januari 2005 13:54
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: What does it backup?
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> I was just checking my activity log on my TSM 4.2 server and noticed
> something odd. One of the clients (W2K server with Oracle + an
> imagebank) did a backup of 2588 files, amounting to almost 9Gb.
>  
> I know not that many data modifies in a single day so I checked to be
> sure, and indeed: only 707 files (393Mb) were modified. My next guess
> was that, for some reason, the Oracle datafiles or backuplogs where
> backed up (normal Oracle backup runs through TDP as a 
> seperate job) but
> when I did a point-in-time check, no oracle datafiles were found - and
> there shouldn't be, as they are excluded from regular backup 
> in dsm.opt.
>  
> Can anyone tell me how I can check what files it actually did 
> backup? I
> really want to know what that data is...
>  
> Kind regards,
> 
> Rick Harderwijk
> Systems Administrator
> 

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