Wanda,
        Sorry, I meant to include that.
        The TSM client is AIX 5.3.4.2, running on a AIX 5.3ML5.  

Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO  63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:45 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM client ignores filesystems mounted by TSM
preschedule command


Is this AIX or Solaris?

> Greetings,
>       I have a situation where the TSM client seems to be ignoring
some 
> mounted filesystems.
>       I have a need to have a TSM preschedule command which imports
some 
> volume groups and mounts their filesystems.  (This data is an EMC disk

> clone of another system, but that is immaterial).
>       Once the preschedule command mounts the filesystems, I run an 
> incremental of the system which should back up only those filesystems 
> that are the ones I just mounted, which happen to all be mounts behind

> the same mount point /tsmprdaok.  My include/exclude file is extremely
> simple:
>
> exclude /.../*
> include /tsmprdaok/.../*
>
> ( I know this will need to exclude other filesystems eventually, but 
> for the sake of keeping it simple this is how it is for now.) When the

> backup runs, it produces:
>
> Executing scheduled command now.
> 10/18/07   17:45:12
> Executing Operating System command or script:
>    /opt/misd/bin/importPrdVg prdaok
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Finished command.  Return code is: 0
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @27 10/18/07
17:42:38
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/'
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/usr'
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/var'
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/home'
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt'
> 10/18/07   17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools'
>
> It does not list any of the filesystems (16 in all) that are mounted 
> by the preschedule onto /tsmprdaok.  Yes, I have verified that the 
> filesystems are really being mounted by issuing a 'df' while the 
> backup is running.
>
> If I issue the preschedule command manually to mount the filesystems, 
> and then run a plain scheduled backup, it produces:
>
> Executing scheduled command now.
> 10/19/07   13:50:42 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @28 10/19/07
13:49:05
> 10/19/07   13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/'
> 10/19/07   13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/usr'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/var'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/home'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/tsmprdaok/epic'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/clarity'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/xfile'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok03'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok04'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok05'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok06'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok07'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok08'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok09'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok10'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok01'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok02'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokwta'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokjrn'
> 10/19/07   13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume
> '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokaltjrn'
>
> What gives?  Why does it work when I mount the filesystems before I 
> run the incremental, but when the filesystems are mounted from inside 
> a preschedule command TSM ignores them?
>
> Asked another way, when does the TSM scheduler look at the OS and 
> decide what filesystems exist?  Does this happen before or after the 
> preschedule runs?  Is there any way to control this behavior?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John D. Schneider
> Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
> Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
> 3637 South Geyer Road
> St. Louis, MO  63127
> Phone: 314-364-3150
> Cell: 314-486-2359
> Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net
>