Thanks Chris,

Looking through the event log I can see the following:

7p.m ADSM Client Service runs the command to start the Exchange Backup.
7.45p.m ADSM Client service reports that it has successfully executed the
Exchange Backup command. (however the output shows that the backup completed
with the Exchange Error: There is no backup in progress. Looks like it had
sent about 14Gb of data)

Seconds later all the Exchange Services shutdown normally and then restart.
This doesn't look like an abnormal shutdown as there are no STOP events.

Normally if the Exchange Info Store goes down during a backup I get either
the ACN200E (Directory down.) or ACN201E (Info Store down.)

I'm following up with the Exchange team to see if they know why Exchange
shutdown and restarted.

I re-ran the backup this morning and it completed successfully so the
problem is probably not going to be recreatable.

Thanks for your help,

Nathan

      -----Original Message-----
        From:   Chris Zaremba [SMTP:zaremba AT US.IBM DOT COM]
        Sent:   Monday, October 25, 1999 9:58 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: Strange Connect Agent Error

        Nathan,

        >Exchange Error: There is no backup in progress

        I don't remember seeing this one before.   Were there any other msgs
in the
        agent log file or
        NT event log?  Was any data sent or did this error msg appear
immediately at the
        start of the backup?

        If this is recreatable, please contact IBM service so that we can
get some trace
        data to see what
        is going on.

        Chris Zaremba
        TDP Client (formerly ADSM Agent)  Development
        internet  zaremba AT us.ibm DOT com