Thanks Andrew, We will look into this as well!

Andrew Raibeck wrote:

> In the case of a crash, it is doubtful that the TSM logs will show you
> anything useful. When the server crashes, what information is displayed or
> logged from the crash itself (not logged by TSM, but by the OS)? That is
> what you need to look at to start diagnosing. I haven't worked with
> NetWare in years, but I would think you'd get information showing which
> NLM caused the exception, some kind of exception code, etc. You can try
> searching the IBM web site (http://www.ibm.com) or the Novell web site to
> see if there are any known problems that match the symptoms. If that
> yields nothing, then I think a call to IBM technical support is in order.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Raibeck
> IBM Software Group
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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>
> The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
> The command line is your friend.
> "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 07/09/2004
> 07:16:59:
>
> > Ted,
> >
> > We put in the verbose option in our novell tsm client's
> > dsm.opt file, but it only showed the following.
> >
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:30 ANS1898I ***** Processed   361,500 files *****
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:35 ANS1898I ***** Processed   362,000 files *****
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:39 ANS1898I ***** Processed   362,500 files *****
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:43 ANS1898I ***** Processed   363,000 files *****
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:47 ANS1898I ***** Processed   363,500 files *****
> > 07/09/2004 04:01:50 ANS1898I ***** Processed   364,000 files *****
> >
> > It didn't show the file that it was backing up when the Server crash
> occurred.
> >
> > TSM novell client 5.2
> > Netware OS 6.5 SP2
> >
> >
> > Ted Byrne wrote:
> >
> > > At 03:49 PM 7/8/2004, you wrote:
> > > >I looked in the dsmsched.log there is nothing in there. (see below)
> > >
> > > If you run your scheduled backups with the -verbose option, it will
> record
> > > the files being backed up.  Based on the dsmsched.log file contents
> you
> > > posted, it looks like the option in effect for the scheduled backups
> is -quiet.
> > >
> > > -Ted