For Windows clients:

I had a lot of problems with the service stopping using 5.1 TSM clients
on Win2K.
Sometimes it just died, all would die about once a month.  I think at
5.1 there was a known memory leak; got better with 5.2, even better with
the 5.3 client.

What I recommend is setting the Windows properties of the scheduler so
that Windows will restart the service once or twice.
In Control Panel -> Admin tools -> Services, Open Properties of the TSM
Scheduler service, select the Recovery tab.
Set it to restart after the 1st and second failure, do nothing after
subsequent failures, restart fail count after 1 day.

That way if the service dies due to the ever-present slow memory leak,
Windows will restart it automatically.

If they still fail, look at the Windows EVENT log and see if there is
any indication of why, or a Windows error code, and report it to 







-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Meadows, Andrew
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Missed backups


I have a general question here. 

I have about 150 clients. 
Client info:

Windows 2003 server
Windows 2000 server
Red Hat Linux 3 AS 
AIX 5.1

All running tsm client version 5 or later sending data to a tsm server
on AIX running version 5.3

On a nightly basis I have at least 6 or 7 of these servers that miss
their backups due to the service stopping. Is this common. Do other
people experience these misses or is it something I need to look into on
these servers. For the most part they are not the same server and I have
the schedules spread from 7pm to 12 pm hourly. 

Just wanting to get a general guage of if there is something that I need
to look into that I am doing wrong or if this is a normal and acceptable
level of misses per night. 

Thanks,
Andrew
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