Thank you Neil, that will help me to go on.

Regards, Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Neil Schofield
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:50 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] journal service in a MS clustered environment
>
> Rainer
>
> We have done journal-based backups on MSCS. There is no need for
> multiple
> journal services - one per cluster node is sufficient. The idea is to
> have
> each one configured to journal any file system on which you desire
> JBB, but
> suppress the errors if the resource is not actually on line on that
> node.
>
> The sample tsmjbbd.ini describes how the parameters DeferFSMonStart,
> DeferRetryInterval and LogFsErrors can be configured to support this.
>
> This extract from our tsmjbbd.ini shows support for journaling on two
> shared files systems - G: and H:.
>
> [JournaledFileSystemSettings]
> JournaledFileSystems=G: H:
> ...
>
> [JournaledFileSystemSettings.G:\]
> DeferFsMonStart=1
> DeferRetryInterval=30
> logFsErrors=0
>
> [JournaledFileSystemSettings.H:\]
> DeferFsMonStart=1
> DeferRetryInterval=30
> logFsErrors=0
>
> My only concern about this is what happens if a failover occurs and a
> file
> is modified within the DeferRetryInterval. I guess if it is not
> subsequently modified, it never gets backed up?
>
> Regards
> Neil Schofield
> Yorkshire Water Services Ltd.
>
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