Hello David, if partial incremental backups work, but full incrementals fail, this points to a problem with the client. Have you tried the clientoption "memoryefficientbackup" already for this client? It might be that the number of files grew in the past and just hit the memory boundaries of the client.
Always remember: IBM error messages aren't there to help YOU :-) -- Michael Prix August 20, 2023 at 10:46 AM, "David L.A. De Leeuw" <da...@bgu.ac.il> wrote: > > Hi Chavdar, > > For the containers we use a dedicated Windows Server, (on VMWare EsxI), with > just a bunch of disks on NTFS. Each disk about 4 TB. > INCR of one specific client crashes since a few days every time. There are > about 25 million files there (40 TB). > If I try incremental backup on a part of the disk, it works fine. > > On the server with the containers, I checked events, antivirus, uninstalled > Windows updates of August. Did not find any problems. > The only similar case I found was here: > https://adsm.org/forum/index.php?threads/storagepool-containers-going-unavailable.32858/ > > That points to a problem of memory on the Spectrum Protect server. > Our system manager is on holidays this week, so cannot check that further. > > Thanks > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of Chavdar > Cholev > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 11:16 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client > > Hi David, > What kind of storage do you use for containers (SAN, NAS...)? > > On Saturday, August 19, 2023, David L.A. De Leeuw <da...@bgu.ac.il> wrote: > > > > > Hi TSM experts, > > > > Our incr backup fails consistently in the last few days. It starts > > alright but after a few gigabyte on the client we get the error: > > > > ANS1301E This operation cannot continue due to an error on the IBM > > Spectrum Protect server. See your IBM Spectrum Protect server > > administrator for assistance. > > > > On the server side we see: > > > > 18-08-2023 22:57:25 ANR2012W Error encountered for storage pool directory: > > \\medbackup.med.ad.bgu.ac.il\tsmc1 in storage pool: > > CPOOL. (SESSION: 194578) > > 18-08-2023 22:57:25 ANR0530W Transaction failed for session 194578 for > > node > > MEDFS2 (WinNT) - internal server error detected. > > (SESSION: 194578) > > 18-08-2023 22:57:26 ANR2012W Error encountered for storage pool directory: > > \\medbackup.med.ad.bgu.ac.il\tsmc1 in storage pool: > > CPOOL. (SESSION: 194578) > > > > Then we find one or more containers unavailable. We fix the containers > > with "audit container ... action=scanall" > > No errors are found. But the next backup will fail again. > > > > The server is on 8.1.17, the client as well. > > The containers are on a number of disks on a shared windows server 2019. > > There have been some updates on the windows server recently. > > (KB5029247,KB5029647) > > > > The audits are fine, data is accessible, but backups fail. > > Any ideas ? > > > > David de Leeuw > > Ben-Gurion University of the Negev > > Beer Sheva Israel > > >
