Thanks for adding that, I forgot to include that info.  But I was assuming that 
this setting had not been changed and was defaulting to not preserve the 
database.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Canan [mailto:ddcanan AT ATTGLOBAL DOT NET]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:30 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Journaling Again


In Version 5.1, a new parameter was introduced in the tsmjbbd.ini file
named PreserveDbOnExit . If this is set to a value of 1, then the journal
is preserved across journal service restarts and reboots. It defaults to 0,
which means invalidate the journal across restarts and reboots.

At 12:14 PM 10/31/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>If you stop and restart the service, then tonight's backup will be a full
>incremental.  The journal service has to be running continuously between 2
>backups or TSM will always default to a full incremental.
>
>Ryan Miller
>
>Principal Financial Group
>
>Tivoli Certified Consultant
>Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:57 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Journaling Again
>
>
> >          1. First of all, look in the dsmsched.log file and look to see if
> > you have the message:
> >
> >                  Using journal for '\\xxx-yyyyyyyy\c$'
>
>It's not there but the service is started.
>
> >          If you see this message, a journaled backup has taken place for
> > that filespace. You should see this message
> >          at the start of the backup.
> >
> >          2. Verify that the journal size is adequate. If you see a message
> > like the following in the jbberror.log,  your journal size (specified by
> > parameter JournalDBSize in tsmjbbd.ini) is set too low. If you take the
> > default (as specified by Pete Tanenhaus
> > in previous posts as a recommendation) you should not have this problem.
>
>This is set to the default and there is no error message in this log
>I guess I'll stop and restart the service and see what kind of reports I get
>tonight.
>
>Geoff Gill
>TSM Administrator
>NT Systems Support Engineer
>SAIC
>E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
>Phone:  (858) 826-4062
>Pager:   (877) 905-7154

Dave Canan
IBM Advanced Technical Support
ddcanan AT us.ibm DOT com