Re: Why back up everything twice?

Thanks for the responses!

Ben pointed me in a direction I think is hopeful. The dsm.opt file was the
original dsm.opt.smp--without a servername! dsm.sys only had one stanza, so
the client was picking up the TCPSERVERADDRESS ok, but some other things,
like inclexcl apparently were *not* being picked up. Or so it seems. I'll
kill the scheduler so it rereads the configuration and see what happens
tonight.

Kai

> Date:    Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:35:25 -0600
> From:    bbullock <bbullock AT MICRON DOT COM>
> Subject: Re: Why back up everything twice?
>
>         Here's my guesses:
>
> 1. Your DOMAIN statement in the dsm.opt lists "/" & "/usr" in it, but on
> your system, there is no separate /usr filesystem. If this is the case,
> remove /usr from the domain statement.
>

No domain statement at all. This box only has locally mounted drives.

> 2. You have an entry in your dsm.sys that says "VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT
> /usr", but there is no separate /usr filesystem on the host. Remove the
> entry.
>

No virtualmountpoints.

> 3. You have an entry in your dsm.sys that says "FOLLOWSYMBOLIC yes" so
that
> all the links in the filesystem are followed, and one of the directories
in
> the path is a link. (This was kind of a weak guess, but what the heck).
>

This was my first guess also, but I have not been able to find it.

> OH... another possibility:
>
> 4. It looks like the time stamps are somewhat overlapping....
>
> 10/15/2001 04:37:44 Successful incremental backup of '/'
>
> 10/15/2001 04:41:57 Incremental backup of file system: '/var'
> 10/15/2001 04:41:59 ANS4102I ***** Processed    96,500 files *****
> 10/15/2001 04:41:59 Normal File-->         719,339 /var/adm/schedule.log
>
> 10/15/2001 04:37:26 Incremental backup of file system: '/usr'
>
>         I bet that you have the host associated to 2 different schedules
> that are running at the same time? In this way they are both running in
> parallel. I'm putting my money on this guess..... Am I right?
>

Actually, this one is a typo from when I transcribed it from my unix system
to the windows dreck they make me use for mail.

> --- and ---
>
> Ben
> Micron Technology Inc.
>
> Date:    Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:19:02 -0400
> From:    "Burton, Robert" <ROBERT.BURTON AT ROYALBANK DOT COM>
> Subject: Re: Why back up everything twice?
>
> I've seen this only once and it was due to a faulty include statement for
> "/" in the inclexcl.txt file....
>

No, but now that you mention it, none of the inclexcl statements are being
followed.

> Robert Burton
> Enterprise Storage Network Analyst
> Royal Bank of Canada
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Hintze [mailto:kai_hintze AT ALBERTSONS DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Why back up everything twice?
>
>
>
> Oh vastly experienced TSM wise ones! You helped me with my questions about

> compression. Now I come before you with another puzzlement, petitioning
your
> assistance.
>
> Client is AIX 4.3.2.0 running ADSM client 2.1.8 against a 3.1.2.20 server.

> (I know, but they work, mostly, and this whole data center is going away
> soon.)
>
> But this one client is strange, in that it backs up everything twice,
first
> as part of the root file system, then again with everything in its proper
> file system. For example these excerpts from the client log:
>
> 10/14/2001 21:37:24 Incremental backup of file system: '/'
> <snip>
> 10/15/2001 04:32:51 Normal File-->  299,008 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdAt
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:32:52 Normal File-->  131,072 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdAt.vc
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:32:53 Normal File-->   81,920 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdCn
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:32:53 Normal File-->   45,056 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdDv
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:32:54 Normal File-->   40,960 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdDv.vc
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:36:19 Normal File-->  708,201 /var/adm/schedule.log
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:37:44 Successful incremental backup of '/'
>
> 10/15/2001 04:41:57 Incremental backup of file system: '/var'
> 10/15/2001 04:41:59 ANS4102I ***** Processed    96,500 files *****
> 10/15/2001 04:41:59 Normal File-->  719,339 /var/adm/schedule.log
> Sent
>
> 10/15/2001 04:37:26 Incremental backup of file system: '/usr'
> <snip>
> 10/15/2001 04:41:18 Normal File-->  299,008 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdAt
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:41:20 Normal File-->  131,072 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdAt.vc
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:41:20 Normal File-->  81,920 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdCn
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:41:21 Normal File-->  45,056 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdDv
> Sent
> 10/15/2001 04:41:21 Normal File-->  40,960 /usr/lib/objrepos/PdDv.vc
> Sent
>
> </quote>
>
> Any ideas why this is doing such a strange thing? Other (seemingly)
> identical clients back up to the same server properly. This is
particularly
> obnoxious, since the client in question is on a slow line.
>
> TIA,
> Kai.
>