I find it useful to have the dsmsched.log file backed up. That way if I have a user turn up with no backups for something after a system crash, I can pull down the dsmsched.log from the TSM backups and see why (believe me, it has happened before!)
SO instead of excluding the dsmsched.log, I bind it to a management class that specifies SERIALIZATION=SHRDYNAMIC. That tells TSM to go ahead and back it up, whether it's changing or not. (My management class name for this is "CHANGING", so to bind the file to that ruleset, you specify: INCLUDE *:\...\dsmsched.log CHANGING in your dsm.opt file, or the appropriate client option set) We use the same technique for other sequential log files; then you get a backup of whatever is in there, up to the last few lines. Do NOT use this technique for data bases, where change can occur in the middle of the file. It also won't work where the error is due to the file being LOCKED, rather than being open for output. Just another idea.. ************************************************************************ Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM trying to backup its own, open files.......... How does it know it is really its own file? You have to exclude it if you do not want TSM to try. -----Original Message----- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM trying to backup its own, open files.......... Why is TSM trying to backup its own, open files ? I thought it was smart enough to not do this ? I am getting this error message from an NT 6a node ! The client is 4.2.1.20 02/21/2002 20:47:46 ANE4037E (Session: 11678, Node: INFO-OFFICE) File '\\info-office_vcu\c$\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\dsmsched.log' changed during processing. File skipped. Also, what is wrong with this exclude statement in my client options file: Exclude *:\WINNT\Profiles\* I get these errors: 02/21/2002 20:49:54 Retry # 1 Normal File--> 1,024 \\info-office_vcu\c$\WINNT\Profiles\Administrator\ntuser.dat.LOG ** Unsuccessful ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
