What file system did you use as a base? Reiser or ext3?
Have you tried running a backup with the SAMBA service down? (the whole
filesystem, yea, I know it'll take an outage).  That will help you find
out if its SAMBA causing the problem, or if it's just the file system.
And, is this a Novell OES Server by chance?  

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Schneider, John
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:03 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Linux TSM client problem related to Samba?
> 
> Greetings,
>     We have a Suse 10 Linux client running TSM client 5.4.2.0.  It is
> also running Samba on one of it's filesystems.  When the nightly
> incremental runs, it backs up the other filesystems, and then hangs on
> the /samba filesystem.  It always hangs somewhere around 20,000 files.
> We also get a lot of:
> 
> ANS4008E Error processing 'filespace namepath-namefile-name': file is
> temporarily unavailable
> 
> messages in dsmerror.log, but I don't know if that really has anything
> to do with it.  It is a fileserver, after all, and there are bound to
> be
> a bunch of files in use, even in the middle of the night.  It is a
> hospital environment, and people work all shifts.
> 
> We have tried "memoryefficientbackup yes", and also changing the
policy
> to static, shrstatic, shrdynamic, but nothing has helped.
> 
> I thought at first that the problem was a corrupt file in the
> filesystem, but now I don't think so.  I ran the following little
> script
> 
> cd /samba/users
> for dir in `ls -1`; do dsmc  inc /samba/users/${dir}/ -subdir=yes;
done
> 
> so that each separate user's account was backed up separately, and
that
> worked.  So the files themselves can be backed up, if TSM gets a
chance
> to read them.
> 
> Is it possible that TSM is being stopped by the Samba processes?  If
> so,
> is there any way to tune Samba to not do this?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> John D. Schneider
> Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
> Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
> Email:  John.Schneider AT Mercy DOT net
> 
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