Bert,
even when some files failed to be saved during backup, you'll see the
backup status "completed".
You get the status "failed", when an error occured that stopped the
scheduled backup, e.g. a network error or a timeout.
To get a more detailed report from our clients I run a daily batch that
collects all "dsmsched.log" files and searches for the string
"incremental backup of '". Based on the output I can take a closer look
on the logfiles when there were more errors than expected.

Example for the output:
hestia.log:09/02/1997 02:26:49 Successful incremental backup of 'C:'
hestia.log:09/02/1997 02:30:11 ANS4638E Incremental backup of 'D:'
finished with 1 failure
iris.log:09/02/1997 02:42:03 ANS4638E Incremental backup of 'C:'
finished with 4 failure
iris.log:09/02/1997 02:42:29 Successful incremental backup of 'D:'
kallisto.log:09/02/1997 01:45:13 Successful incremental backup of 'C:'
kallisto.log:09/02/1997 01:47:26 Successful incremental backup of 'D:'

Regards,
Michael
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Michael H. Bartl
Michael H. Bartl
ADAC e.V. (Rechenzentrum, Produktionsplanung und Organisation)
Tel.: (089) 7676-4063, Fax: (089) 7676-8161
EMail: Michael.Bartl AT Zentrale.ADAC DOT de

>----------
>Von:   Bert Geebelen[SMTP:BertG AT CEM.E-MAIL DOT COM]
>Gesendet:      Dienstag, 2. September 1997 11:13
>An:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Betreff:       Backup Status
>
>I've been searching for a long time for the right meaning of the status
>failed of a scheduled event. I'm quiet sure that this means that a
>scheduled
>event has been started but that it never ended. But does it also means
>that the
>scheduled event ended, but that a few files have failed during the
>backup?
>
>Greetings,
>Bert.
>