We have found that many TDP agents, especially older ones, don't bother
loading last-backup-date info into the TSM database when they complete.  I
think I've also seen this with some Mac clients.   But almost all the
filesystem clients DO load these fields correctly.

Another reason they're empty is because the schedule included something in
the objects field.  If you do an incremental backup, but limit it using the
object= feature on the schedule, dsmc does not load these fields, presumably
because it can't be sure that things were fully backed up.

We have workarounds within Servergraph to get accurate backup status
reporting - contact me offline if that's your concern.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect
www.servergraph.com
512-482-6138 ext 105

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Gill, Geoffrey L.
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:55 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: last backup info
>
>
> Can anyone explain why the last backup start date/time, last backup
> completion date/time, and deletion occurred in filespace date/time would
> have no information in them for filespaces reported on some nodes? The
> capacity and percent util register data.
>
> Yesterday we had a SAN controller firmware upgrade and it seems one of the
> nodes on the SAN lost the data and a recovery is necessary. I'm
> not the one
> restoring the data nor do I have access to the node. I'm just looking from
> the TSM server side to see what is "hopefully" in TSM. I don't
> want to say I
> have a bad feeling something hasn't been backed up but I do want
> to have an
> educated answer if in fact there is no data.
>
>
>
> I understand the inclexcl list tells TSM what to back up, and I have no
> control of it. I have not asked to see this one yet but have a feeling I
> might need to. This particular node reports it is at 5.1.5.0, it
> is on Tru64
> platform. The server is on AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1.6.3.
>
>
>
> I see this same phenomenon for other filespaces on other nodes,
> although it
> has never struck me to ask why it is blank.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
>
>
>
> Node Name
>
> CP-ITS-DWPROD
>
>
> Filespace Name
>
> /san2
>
>
> FSID
>
> 49
>
>
> Filespace Type
>
> ADVFS
>
>
> Capacity (MB)
>
> 416687.2
>
>
> Pct Util
>
> 1.3
>
>
> Last Backup Start Date/Time
>
> -
>
>
> Last Backup Completion Date/Time
>
> -
>
>
> Deletion occurred in Filespace Date/Time
>
> -
>
>
> Is Filespace Unicode?
>
> NO
>
>
> Hexadecimal Filespace Name
>
> -
>
>
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 905-7154
>