Hi,

I would suspect "out of mem" conditions on this type of back-ups.
However, very strange that no logs exists.

Probably helps to look closely at the sched.log. In their you should be
able to see when en where the scheduled back-up stops, and maybe even
why. Of course, quiet etc should be in the opt.

Regards,

Karel
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Steve Schaub
Sent: dinsdag 9 augustus 2005 16:10
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: strange incremental behavior on Windows 5.2.2.0

TSM server 5.2.2.0 on AIX, client 5.2.2.0 on Win 2003 Std

About 2 weeks ago we noticed that the daily scheduled incremental
backups on our 2 big fileservers were behaving oddly.

When the scheduled incrementals run, or if I use an immediate action, or
command line from the machines themselves, the backups look like they
complete normally, but they only show that they have examined < 10k
files.
There is no error message in the sched log or the activity log, nothing
in dsmerror or dsierror, no dump, nothing.  the schedule reports
completed successfully.

If I termserv to the machines and backup through the client gui, it
behaves normally and backs up tons of files.

These file servers each have 2 volumes of 1.7TB and 1.3TB with over 5mil
files on each.  These volumes have been increased every few weeks due to
running out of space.

I havent found any apar that seems to fit this odd behavior, and we
havent touched the tsm client on these machines for at least 6 months.
we are not using journaling on them.

anyone seen anything that would shed light?

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, WNI
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