I can feel some of your pain.  I too have a Netware server that takes
forever to backup (30+ hours) eventhough it only backups up a few GB each
cycle but has to process 1.5M files.

I wonder about the size of your logs.  You have it set to prune at 7-days
and QUIET so why is it so big?  Are you sure any changes to dsm.opt have
been picked up/dsmcad restarted?

If I understand correctly, if there is no active backup running, you
should be able to just delete/rename the dsmsched.log file and the next
backup pass will create a new one.

Noticed you have RESOURCEUTILZATION at 8.  Are you actually running
multiple sessions?  Also I would think MEMORYEFFICIENT would contradict
RESOUREUTILZATION since specifying the latter uses more memory?
Zoltan Forray
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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From:
Timothy Hughes <Timothy.Hughes AT OIT.STATE.NJ DOT US>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
07/15/2010 01:20 PM
Subject:
[ADSM-L] Novell backup help
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



Hello all,

We have a novell client that's backing up or least trying to back up
376GB a night  the dsm.opt  is below (any comments welcom)

Also,

I can't open the dsmsched log (s) don't know why there is more than one.
One of which is 314MB. I want to get rid it and start with a new one we
could just unload and reload the dsmcad.nlm correct?

Thanks, for any help in advance and feel free to offer any suggestions
on how to speed up the backup which runs entirely to long to the point
of not completing

F.Y.I - we have to work  this out before I can even begin to work on the
cluster part

*
  COMMMETHOD                TCPip
    TCPSERVERADDRESS         xx.xx.xx.xx
    TCPCLIENTADDRESS         xx.xx.x.xxx
    TCPPORT                  1500
    HTTPPORT                 1581



*  Setting Nodename
*  -------------------------------------------------------

  NODENAME        PilotHQ_STARK
  DOMAIN          RESTORE:
*  CLUSTERNODE     YES



*  NetWare Memory management option
*  ---------------------------------------------------------------
*  The following option uses a memory conserving algorithm for
*  processing incremental backups as each directory is backed up.
*  This option may increase the duration of time required for
*  backups and increase CPU utilization on the TSM Server.
*  But will decrease the required NetWare memory needed for backups.
*
 MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP YES
 RESOURCEUTILIZATION 8

 NWEXITNLMP YES


* NWUSER server_1_name\user:password
* NWUSER server_2_name\user:password
* NWUSER nds_tree_name\user:password

*  NetWare user ID and password file
*  --------------------------------------------------------------
*  The following option specifies that the user ID and password used
*  to connect to a NetWare resource (server or NDS tree) will be stored
*  in an encrypted file in the installation directory after the intiial
*  prompt. An encrypted file will be created for each resource with the
*  extension .PWD
*
* NWPWFILE YES

*  Silencing screen output
*  -----------------------------------------------------------------
*  Use the QUIET option to keep messages from being displayed on the
*  NetWare console and the schedule log file.  This option will enhance
*  the performance during scheduled backups.
*
*  Note that by using this option, schedule event windows, schedule
*  statistics and errors during schedule processing will still be
*  written to the schedule log file.
*
*  If this option is not specified, the default VERBOSE will be taken.
*
MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE
SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
tcpwindowsize 64
largecommbuffers yes
tcpb 32
txnb 25600
tcpnodelay yes
Errorlogretention 7
Schedlogretention 7
passwordaccess generate


 QUIET

Getting the following messas in the dsmerror.log

07/15/2010 08:12:53 (TSAFS.NLM 6.53.3 314) All resource names are
already scanned, or none were found.
07/15/2010 08:12:53 ANS1999E Incremental processing of 'RESTORE:' stopped.

07/15/2010 08:12:53 ANS1028S An internal program error occurred.
07/15/2010 08:12:53 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'MIDNIGHT' failed.  Return
code = 12.