What is it you are archiving?  Are you sure that the data would 
not be less on some days?  If there are not a lot of files, then
look at dsmsched.log on the client and see what files and sizes
were archived.  This may show why it is less some days, or point
to files/directories where it is less.

(Maybe you have less data on weekends).

David Longo

>>> Bill.Wheeler AT LA-Z-BOY DOT COM 07/16/01 10:57AM >>>
Hello *SMers,

        I have a question for all those people out there that know more
about TSM than I do.   Can someone explain to me why there would be a
fluctuation in the amount of data backed up in an archive?   We run a
nightly archive on our system, but the amount of GB backed up are different.
I can understand if the information would just be growing but some days it
is less than the day before.   Any explanation?

We are running

TSM    4.1.2.0
AIX      4.3.3

Any information would be helpful.


Thanks in advance,

Bill Wheeler
AIX Administrator
La-Z-Boy Incorporated
bill.wheeler AT la-z-boy DOT com <mailto:bill.wheeler AT la-z-boy DOT com>



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