Dwight,

You might want to look into some of the new additions to "Define dbb", such
as "mininterval" and "minlogfreepct".  They can help to alleviate problems
like the one you ran into.  They cause TSM to not run another incr db bkp
unless a certain amount of time has elapsed and/or a certain percentage of
the log will actually be freed up by running the db backup.

..Paul

At 01:59 PM 4/26/2004 -0500, Dwight Cook wrote:

Look for an NT box that had a session canceled due to a timeout value being
reached...

04/23/2004 23:37:24  ANR0481W Session 834 for node XXXXXXXX (WinNT)
                      terminated - client did not respond within 7800
seconds.
                      (SESSION: 834)

That sucker pinned my log and triggered about 200+ full data base backups
because each full db backup didn't free enough log space!

ARGH !

Dwight E. Cook
Systems Management Integration Professional, Advanced
Integrated Storage Management
TSM Administration
(918) 925-8045




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Over the weekend, my Log got pinned and it filled up, severely
interrupting a barbecue. (Murphy's Law in action: My pager went off
WHILE the steaks were on the grill.)

Now that it is all mopped up (and the easily available evidence is
thereby destroyed) how can I figure out how this happened? (I know, I
should have entered a SHOW LOGPIN command, but I didn't. It didn't occur
to me until a search of adsm.org long afterward.) Are there any telltale
signs I can search for in the Activity Log? Or in the Accounting file?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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========================= -- Wernher von Braun =========================

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