Sorry for the lack of information on my earlier post.

I took a look a the Dsmerror.log and found the
following errors leading up to the 3,000 + file failures

07/28/2004 01:51:57 A transport failure has occurred.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred.
Please contact Novell to resolve it.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 A transport failure has occured.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred.
Please contact Novell to resolve it.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 A transport failure has occured.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object
'.[Root].O=xxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxx
.CN=WP_AMI_GENERAL' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred.
Please contact Novell to resolve it.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 A transport failure has occured.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object
'.[Root].O=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxx.CN=ZIP CODES' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred.
Please contact Novell to resolve it.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 A transport failure has occured.
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object
'.[Root].O=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxx
.CN=xxxxxx.CN=MTA' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object
'.[Root].O=xxxxxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxxxx.OU=xxx.CN=xxxxxx.CN=xxxxxxx' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object
'.[Root].O=xxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxx.CN=xxxxxx.CN=WEBACC55' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=xxxxxxxx.OU=xxxxxxxx
.OU=xxx.CN=xxxxxx.CN=POA' failed
07/28/2004 01:51:57 Skip current operation
Report how you got this
07/28/2004 01:51:57 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '.[Root]' finished with 3426
failure


I also find the following errors some seemed to be the Internet Bookmark sites
I eluded to on my other post


07/28/2004 05:49:02 ANS1228E Sending of object
'VOL1:/PROJE/SUPPORT/Angel/neerja/Favorites/Seattle Public SchoolsÿÿDev Stg
Read.url' failed
07/28/2004 05:49:02 ANS4005E Error processing
'VOL1:/PROJE/SUPPORT/Angel/neerja/Favorites/Seattle Public SchoolsÿÿDev Stg
Read.url': file not found
07/28/2004 05:49:02 ANS1228E Sending of object
'VOL1:/PROJE/SUPPORT/Angel/Ronl/Favorites/The rÿBaseball Team.url' failed
07/28/2004 05:49:02 ANS4005E Error processing
'VOL1:/PROJE/SUPPORT/Angel/Ronl/Favorites/ Baseball Team.url': file not found
07/28/2004 05:49:02 ANS1228E Sending of object
'VOL1:/PROJE/SUPPORT/crisk/Favorites/Brick,ÿNew JerseyÿForecastÿby 
Intellicast.url'
failed
07/28/2004 05:50:20 (TSA500.NLM 5.5 269) No data sets can be found.
07/28/2004 05:50:23 (TSA500.NLM 5.5 269) No data sets can be found.
07/28/2004 05:50:23 (TSA500.NLM 5.5 269) No data sets can be found.

Novell Tsm client version  5.2.2
Netware OS 5.1 SP6
TSM Version 5.2.1.3


Thanks again for any help on these errors!

Richard Sims wrote:

> >Last night 2 of our Novell clients nodes failed with a return code 12,
> >total number of objects failed were over 3,000 from each. (see server
> >Act log below) ...
>
> You're keeping us in suspense...  You need to examine the backup log, and
> perhaps also the dsmerror.log, to ascertain the detail reason for the 
> failures.
> The session-end stats provide no info about reasons.
>
>   Richard Sims