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[ADSM-L] Is memoryefficientbackup incompatible with VM

2010-09-09 17:30:17
Subject: [ADSM-L] Is memoryefficientbackup incompatible with VM
From: "Huebschman, George J." <gjhuebschman AT LEGGMASON DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:29:34 -0400
Or, should I just exclude the Y$?
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Client - 6.1.3.0
Host - Win2K3 R2 SP2
TSM Server - 5.5.1.0
TSM Server OS - AIX 5.3.0.0
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 - Backing up Windows VMs with standard BAclient
*** Backups have begun failing with ANS1030E messages, "The operating
system refused a TSM request for memory allocation."
I tried adding "memoryefficientbackup yes" to the dsm.opt file, then ran
an incremental manually.

Things looked better at first, CPU usage stayed low and the paging file
stayed below 2.7G.  But the client began throwing out thousands of
messages nearly identical to the following:

09/09/2010 15:35:29 ANS1228E Sending of object
'\\<server_name>\y$\default\main\Some_subFolder\SomePig\Wilbur\Charlotte
s\Ping.aspx' failed
09/09/2010 15:35:29 calloc() failed: Size 51706 File cuopt.cpp Line 444
09/09/2010 15:35:29 calloc() failed: Size 51706 File cuopt.cpp Line 445

 - The Y$ drive on this server is an IWFS (Intl. Wine & Food Soc.?)
filesystem.  (Possibly something related to the Interwoven application,
which runs on this server.)
 -  It is exactly the same size and utilization, to the byte, of the D:
drive but the objects backed up are not the same.
 -  The D: drive presents as a local drive.  In Device Manager, two
devices are shown under Disk drives as VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk
Devices.  They are unnamed.  I tentatively assume they are C: and D:.
Drilling into properties shows one with "Bus Number 0, Target ID 1, LUN
0", and the other with Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0.

I found an old apar IC48767: AE IC46065  related to the TSM 5.3.2 client
and specifically related to the Microsoft API call GetFileSecurity.  It
has superficially similar error messages, but it appears to be something
different.

? How do I get successful backups and avoid either clobbering this
server, or getting errors for an entire drive?



George Huebschman
Storage Support Team, Media Librarian
Legg Mason, LMTS
410 580-7911 (office)
410 522-8581 (mobile)

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