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Re: What does it backup?

2005-01-05 09:31:57
Subject: Re: What does it backup?
From: Rick Harderwijk <RHarderwijk AT FACTOTUMMEDIA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:31:33 +0100
John,

Thank you very much. That was exactly what I was looking for. I created a list 
of files, I didn't spot anything weird there right away, but I'll check again.

Cheers,

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> Behalf Of
> John Naylor
> Sent: woensdag 5 januari 2005 14:39
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: What does it backup?
> 
> 
> Rick,
> The select below suitably tailored for node_name and backup_date  will
> tell you what was in that backup
> 
> SELECT HL_NAME,LL_NAME  FROM BACKUPS -
> WHERE NODE_NAME='YOURNODE' -
> AND BACKUP_DATE BETWEEN '2005-01-04 21:00' AND '2005-01-05 07:00'
> John
> 
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> 
> Rick Harderwijk <RHarderwijk AT factotummedia DOT nl>
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> 05/01/2005 12:53
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> What does it backup?
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just checking my activity log on my TSM 4.2 server and noticed
> something odd. One of the clients (W2K server with Oracle + 
> an imagebank)
> did a backup of 2588 files, amounting to almost 9Gb.
> 
> I know not that many data modifies in a single day so I checked to be
> sure, and indeed: only 707 files (393Mb) were modified. My 
> next guess was
> that, for some reason, the Oracle datafiles or backuplogs 
> where backed up
> (normal Oracle backup runs through TDP as a seperate job) but 
> when I did a
> point-in-time check, no oracle datafiles were found - and 
> there shouldn't
> be, as they are excluded from regular backup in dsm.opt.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how I can check what files it actually did 
> backup? I
> really want to know what that data is...
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Rick Harderwijk
> Systems Administrator
> 
> 
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