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Re: Problems during scheduled incremental backup of an AIX server

1999-08-23 10:40:51
Subject: Re: Problems during scheduled incremental backup of an AIX server
From: "Mauro M. TINELLI" <Mauro.TINELLI AT ST DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:40:51 +0200
Dear cdacunha,

try to increase the size of your client DataSegment and try again .. if
it happens to be a NT platform probably you have to play with the swap
file ... I hope the 'farmalloc' is not anymore in use on MS-platform!

Mauro, STM

> Hi there,
>
> We're currently converting our Optical Disk archive to a Hard disk
archive
> and we've recently stumbled into some problems when we tried to backup
> those filesystems. We created a filesystem with a size of 21 Gb for
> conversion purposes, 17 Gb is used now but more important about
2700.000
> inodes have been created.
> (It's a document archive).
>
>
> I've created a schedule just to backup this filesystem since I
suspected
> problems with this filesystem. The backup starts but after a while the
> dsmerror.log starts filling with messages "PrivFindDir: No memory to
> allocate new DirEntry"
>
> I also tried working with the option MemoryEfficientBackup, but this
didn't
> seem to help. I remember that there used to be a command
slowincremental
> but I can't find this one anymore .
>
> Has anyone any ideas ?
>
> The server is an AIX 4.2.1 with ADSM 3.1 fix 40 and the client is an
AIX
> 4.2.1 with 3.1.20.6
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