We did not test replication with this round of clients. 
I agree only replication would need to touch the OPT files.


JoeA

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Zoltan Forray
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:17 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsm.opt file being corrupted/blanked

Did your testing involve replication? AFAIK nothing should be changing/updating 
the dsm.opt file except for replication so that is my only clue. Since we first 
started trying to use replication with 6.3.5, there have been many fixes to 
numerous problems with replication - many of which we experienced to the point 
we gave up on replication until we upgraded everything to 7.1.x

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Abbott, Joseph <JABBOTT AT partners DOT org>
wrote:

> We ran extensive testing on the 7.1.0 code and never saw this issue.
> Not saying the 0 base is not your issue but just haven't seen it.
>
> We have 7.1.6 out in the wild now and also have not seen this issue.
>
> JoeA
>
> Joseph Abbott, Tivoli Storage Manager Architect CDP Partners 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 10:05 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] dsm.opt file being corrupted/blanked
>
> Folks,
>
> Wondering if anyone has seen this issue. The first time I saw it a few 
> months back, I ignored it as a one-time issue.  But it just happened 
> again so I am digging deeper.
>
> This time (don't recall what the OS/client version was for the first
> incident) it is a Windows 2008 R2 server with BA 7.1.0.0 (yes I know - 
> 0-releases are always problematic).
>
> OS tech noticed the backups failing and went to investigate.  Trying 
> to start the CLI - it hung.  Checked the dsm.opt file and found it 
> blank/empty? It has been backing up for a long, long time with no 
> reason to make any changes to the dsm.opt file.
>
> AFAIK, the only thing that should be mucking with the dsm.opt file, 
> aside from manually editing it, is replication.  So, is this 
> replication related or a client bug?  Did some quick Googling without 
> any luck on a known problem/fix.
>
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