Thats a good thought Richard, and easily checked with an sql query
However if this is the same as I am seeing the sql does not find anything.





Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu> on 12/19/2002 06:33:30 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu>

To:   adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu
cc:    (bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject:  Re: Client tries to backup non-existing files



>12/19/02   04:43:43 ANS1228E Sending of object '/bla/bla/file' failed
>
>Every night the client complains about the same files.
>
>And now for the bizarre part: According to our
>customer these files have been removed from
>the client some time ago...

Hmmm... I wonder if the Sending error might be the client having seen
the name in the active-files list it got from the server at the start
of the backup and, not having found the file in the client file system,
is trying to incite an Expire, but is having trouble communicating that
file name to the server (odd characters, etc.).  Keep in mind that many
message-issuance routines expect normalcy in the strings they handle,
and neither look for nor deal with inadvertent non-displayable, binary
characters.  That kind of thing can always throw off an investigation:
what you see is not the reality.

  Richard Sims, BU








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