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Re: Odd client problem - backs up all files every night

2006-10-19 11:20:52
Subject: Re: Odd client problem - backs up all files every night
From: Andrew Raibeck <storman AT US.IBM DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:19:10 -0600
The client does not decide on its own to back up all files every night.
Something else is almost certainly triggering that behavior.

Likely possibilities: someone changed a copy group's MODE setting (on the
TSM server) to ABSOLUTE (though that could affect all nodes belonging to
that policy), or someone performed mass changes on the client file system,
perhaps security changes, which will trigger backups of all changed files.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 10/19/2006
08:00:11 AM:

> One of my clients has decided to back up all files every night, instead
of
> performing an incremental backup, so I have multiple identical copies of
> ancient files and old versions of files are rapidly overwritten by
multiple
> copies of the current version.
>
> I'm using the BA Client and all my client machines use a single policy.
I've
> checked that the default backup action in the client is incremental.
Nothing
> is logged to the error log that might suggest problems.
>
> Is this a common problem and how can I fix it? I'm not that experienced
with
> TSM yet but we're running 5.3.3 on Windows 2003.
>
> Thanks

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