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See questions/comments below please;

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
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>Our main CAD server runs an archive job at 1:00 am on Sunday
>morning that
>sends 145,000 files totalling 40 GB to our TSM server. Takes
>5-6 hours but
>runs successfully - now that the Archive Link switch is set properly.

Can you be more specific here, I'm not sure what an Archive Link switch is.

>3. Does anyone have a better idea on how to run archives?
>
>Well, approximately 1/4 of all the data in my system is
>archives. That's
>about 2 TB out of 8 TB.
>We've seen where the archive job will fail if one path in a
>list of paths
>is missing or if it denies access.  For example, we had some
>NT boxes that
>were supposed to archive "C:\my documents" and "D:\CAD files" in that
>order.  Every PC had "D:\CAD files" but a few didn't have "C:\my
>documents".  On those PCs, the entire archive job failed even
>though the
>second path was valid.

I also tried this and had the same problem. If there were computers without
specified directories they would report as failed even though they did
sucessfully archive the data they did have. Unfortunately I doubt I have 2
machines alike when it comes to this so that's why I chose the .cmd file on
each server. This way I could be specific to each.