Thanks Efim. I did not think to look there. I have included it in my opt
file and will look for the results this weekend in my ARCHIVE.

Thanks
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Abrian,
concernin WEBSM:

Problem DB growing rapidly when backup or archiving /usr. Operations
such as backup, archive and delete archive can fail with errors ANS3008E
; Too many symbolic links or ANS5023E Not enough memory Cause recursive
symlinks on circular linked directories of WEBSM product Solution A
deeper look into /usr shows a link called /usr/websm/html/en_US/wsmship/
that points to /usr/websm.
These files are from WEBSM product and the structure under /usr is
normal (more that 40 levels of subdirectories with wsmship symbolic
link). TSM follows the link and puts the operation in a loop and the
result is that TSM is inspecting more objects than exists and the
operation can abort due to many links or not enough memory. The solution
is to use archsymlinkasfile no in dsm.opt for archive operations and
exclude lines for backup operations. For example :
exclude /usr/websm/html/en_US/wsmship/*

Efim

* Adrian Compton <adrianc AT ASPENPHARMA DOT COM> [Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:41:37
+0200]:
> Hi There,
>
> I want to ensure I am implementing the best possible strategy for TSM
> backups.
> Has anyone implemented this successfully as described in the
> Full-Incremental Rotations Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager field
guide
> from IBM.
>
> I am using a copy storage pool , and perform a full backup weekly, and
> incrementals during the week. In addition I do an archive on the last
> Sunday of each month. All AIX.
> Would this constitute best practice.
>
> Another side issue - Has anyone encountered recursive backing up of
> linked
> directories in AIX. I have a directory called websm that seems to go
> into
> an endless loop.
> Any ideas how to rid of this error with out excluding the said
> directory.
>
> Regards
>
> Adrian Compton
>
> Aspen Pharmacare Port Elizabeth
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> Fax: +27 (0) 41 453 7452
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