What did a client back up?

[Silent700]

I've got a client that seems to be backing up far more than it ought to every night.

How can I tell what it has backed up? I don't necessarily need every single file, as that will likely be 10s of thousands of lines. A summary by filesystem and/or a list of the ~200 largest files might do it.

I would think this would be a very simple task, but I can't find any posts about it. Thanks for any clues....

 

[ttrinh7975]

Check the dsmsched log...

You may need to fix your dsmsched and dsmerror retention...

IE...(Add this into the dsm.opt file and cycle TSM services)
SCHEDLOGName “D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmsched.log”
SCHEDLOGRetention 7 D
ERRORLOGName “D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmerror.log”
ERRORLOGRetention 7 D

Default set up via the wizard does not have a logs retention...

 

[Silent700]

That assumes I have full logging on, correct?

I came up with this method. Not sure if it's workable. From the client, I execute:

dsmc q b -fromdate='11/06/2008' c:\*\* > filename.txt

Then trim that chart, pull into Excel and sort by size.

Am I missing anything?

 

[ttrinh7975]

You can do that or pull the dsmsched.log, then import that dsmsched.log into excel..

 

[Silent700]

My method above works in Windows. In Unix, not so well. In Windows, c:\*\* traverses all subdirectories. In Unix it does exactly what you tell it to, and give you only files two subdirs below the root.

Documentation inside dsmc is poor, so I don't know how it treats paths, or even what all the options do!

 

[ttrinh7975]

Try this or export the file to your desktop...

dsmc q b -fromdate='11/06/2008' /var/*>* > /filename.txt