FWIW,

5.00 is Win2K
5.01 is WinXP
5.02 is Win2003 server



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Huge system object


Very strange...

You should open up a problem with IBM support if you have not already done
so.I don't know under what system object component these files are
falling, but you might try running:

   dsmc query systeminfo sfp

and examining the resulting dsminfo.txt file to see if these are somehow
falling under system file protection.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/14/2004
08:07:56:

> One of our Windows clients sent an 18 gigabyte system object backup
> last night. Results from 'query occ' commands suggest that it has been
> doing this for the last five nights. I ran a 'query content' command
> against one of the volumes holding the lastest backup and got a list of
> files like the following:
>
> NIIHAU   Bkup  SYSTEM         5  \HEALTHPOL\TRAINING$\OFFICE
>                 OBJECT            DOCUMENTS\DBN SLIDES\SCANNED\2001\JA-
>                                   NUARY 2001\ NEWSLETTER2.CPT
>
> [Some whitespace has been removed to prevent unwanted line breaks.]
> It would appear that large amounts of application data are being
> treated as part of the system object. The TSM client software is
> at the 5.1.5.0 level. TSM reports the OS level as WinNT 5.02. I
> think this is Windows 2000.