> George,
> I've been at TSA500 5.4 and SMDR 5.5 for 4 months now with no problems
> running with DSMC  ver4  rel2  level 1.7.
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> Brandon Eckmann
> Network and Technology Services
> Wayne State College
> Wayne NE.
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> Thanks for the tip but my cache hit percentage is in the low 99s for both
> my AIX and Win2K TSM servers. The issue is more likely related to the
> version of Novell and its components based on reading and comments from
> others... Here is where we are at:
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> TSA500    5.03
> TSANDS    5.25
> SMDR      5.04
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> The Novell admins are hesitant to put on TSA5UP7 or TSA5UP8 because these
> are still beta but contain important fixes that apparantly TSM likes
> (speedwise)
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> Any other hints/suggestion would be VERY appreciated. Backups are taking
> forever on these Novell 5 boxes...
>
> George Lesho
> AFC Enterprises
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> Brandon Eckmann/NS/WSC <breckma1 AT WSC DOT EDU>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/14/2002
> 11:21:26 AM
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> On the TSM server side, run "query db format=detail" and check the "Cache
> Hit Pct" line.
> If it is under 98%, you need to increase the number of database buffers in
> the TSM server.
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> Brandon Eckmann
> Network and Technology Services
> Wayne State College
> Wayne NE.
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> I now have two Novell clients; one each hung off AIX 433 / TSM 4145 and
> Win2K / TSM 415 respectively. These clients are at Novell 5.0 SP5 with TSM
> client 413. I have compression turned off in the dsm.opt file. I get
> repreated indications in
> the activity logs from both TSM servers that such and such a file can't be
> backed up because it is not found.
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> 02/08/02   16:14:40      ANE4005E (Session: 1271, Node: ADSM_PEACH1)
Error
>                           processing
> 'DATA2:/PFC/BRAND/SJM/BRAND/B_REVIEW/BR1996/P-
>                           D_08_96/COMPMKTS.XLS': file not found
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> Performance is terrible. I sure could use some help with this issue.
> Incremental backups are in the 8 hour range...
>
> George Lesho
> AFC Enterprises
>