OK, I ran cleanup backupgroups for a week and it returned 1.5M pages to my
database.  However, that was not continuous time.  I would run it for
several hours and cancel it as needed to prevent conflicts with other stuff.
My experience was it literally shuts down backup stg and database backups.
I have not had to halt the server to get it out of the system.  If you had
to halt the server, you probably have an additional problem.

Note that cleanup backupgroups is also in the release that I am running
4.2.2.12.  You do not have to go to 5.1.1.6 to get this fix.  The system
object problem occurs in 4.2 as well.

The time to run the cleanup backupgroups has not specific run time.  It will
run as long as it needs to seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years,
decades, centuries.  Whatever it takes.  Boy is this a nasty issue.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Ragan [mailto:mragan AT YCI DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:59 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 5.1.1.6 Upgrade


Last week we moved the TSM server from an IBM H70 running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM
4.2.2.4 to an IBM 6H1 running AIX 5.1.0.2 then upgraded to TSM 5.1.1.6.  My
database is about 51 gigs in size.

Tivoli support told me to run "cleanup backupgroup" to cleanup orphaned
records when I ran into problems with expiration.  I was told other
activities (such as backing up the database and client backups) could take
place while the command ran.  After the "cleanup backupgroup" command was
running for 5 hours and a backupdb had been running for 2 hours getting a
4th of the way finished when it normally, takes 30 minutes, I halted the
server to kill the cleanup command.  Support tells me the cleanup command
could take 2 days.  They also tell me the next release (2 weeks) should
include the ability to background the command and restart where you left
off.

Does anyone have any experience running cleanup backupgroup to validate the
2 day run time?

Thank you,
Maria
Maria Ragan
Systems Engineer
Unix Systems Group
Yamanouchi Consumer, Inc.