Here's what our cron script returns after a failed backup with the
ANS1301E system error:
We get the file backed up about 2, maybe 3, times a week (we try every
night). I know very little about ADSM so this output may not be useful,
but...

When we get the ANS1301E the backup ends and all other data is not
backed up. The backup succeeds if the ADSM server has been restarted
recently.

Notice the file size (5 gig). Anyone having this problem on smaller
files?

Andy

See cron output below.

---------- start of cron script output ----------
ADSM backup on xxxxxx at Tue Jul 7 02:00:00 CDT 1998
ADSM backup on xxxxxx at Tue Jul 7 02:00:00 CDT 1998
Node Name: xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.1
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1997, All Rights Reserved.

Session established with server ADSM1: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 1.3
  Server date/time: 07/07/1998 02:00:14  Last access: 07/06/1998
09:46:11


Incremental backup of volume '/'
ANS1898I ***** Processed       500 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     1,000 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     1,500 files *****
ANS1898I ***** Processed     2,000 files *****
Normal File-->             3,012 /.sh_history [Sent]
Normal File-->            60,633 /dsmerror.log [Sent]
Special File-->                0 /dev/error [Sent]
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...thousands of files backed up successfully...
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Incremental backup of volume '/u03'
Normal File-->     5,493,062,874 /u03/umdba/export/expdat.dmp.Z  **
Unsuccessful **
ANS1114I Waiting for mount of offline media.
Retry # 1  Normal File-->     5,493,062,874
/u03/umdba/export/expdat.dmp.Z  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1301E Server detected system error


Total number of objects inspected:   65,784
Total number of objects backed up:    2,271
Total number of objects updated:          0
Total number of objects rebound:          0
Total number of objects deleted:          9
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:     2.04 GB
Data transfer time:                  373.05 sec
Network data transfer rate:        5,746.56 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:      2,397.65 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:                    0%
Elapsed processing time:           00:14:54
---------- ..end of cron script output ----------
> -----Original Message-----
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Cook [mailto:decook AT AMOCO DOT COM]
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>      What was in the surrounding activity log?
>
>      Backups running?
>      DB backup ?
>      expiration ?
>      etc...?
>
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