NO, "excessive write failures" is NOT a normal result of a DB backup, even during times of very high contention.
Look carefully at the errors in your activity log to figure out why, or send us the EXACT messages . DB backups don't "lock" nodes. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Database backup during day Hi Everybody, We are looking into scheduling a database backup during the day as the last database backup we have for our nightly process is done at around 4:00 AM in the morning. If something should happen in the afternoon, then we can go back to the latest database backup which we would have go to disk as our database backup from the morning would be offsite. I've tried running a database backup during the day but it constantly fails with an error regarding excessive write failures. Is this because the nodes are not locked ? If they need to be locked, doesn't that cause contention if a backup/restore request is made by a client ? Rich
