Ladies and Gents, I have a very perplexing problem.
I have 3 Exchange servers that backup in two ways. They each have a "-exch" node name for daily backups for DR purposes and general purpose restores. Then they also have a "-weekly" node name for weekly backups for archival purposes (yea, I know we have purchased a real email archive solution so this will go away soon). Now, I backup the -exch nodes full each Sunday, and do incremental through the rest of the week, and I do a similar backup with the -weekly except it's a full on the first of the month, with each weekly backup after that being an incremental. Here's where it gets weird. The Incrementals for the -weekly nodes appear to be gone. Running: tdpexcc query TSM * INCR /ALL /TSMOPTF=dsm.weekly.opt Returns : ACN5820E There were no Exchange backups found on the Tivoli Storage Manager server matching the specified criteria. Now, fulls and diffs show up just fine. IF I run the same query against the -exch nodes I get the info on all the incrementals. The same is true in the GUI interfaces as well. TSM Server version: 5.5.3 (recently patched) running on AIX 6.1 TSM BA Client version: 5.5.1 (yea, going to update to 5.5.2.7 but not until this problem is resolved). TSM TDP Client version: 5.5.1 Here's the log entry that shows the Incremental ran: 12/12/2009 20:05:15 ============== Log file pruned using log retention period of 60 day(s) 12/12/2009 20:05:15 ============== 22 out of 198 entries pruned from the top of this log 12/12/2009 20:05:16 ======================================================================== = 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Request : Backup 12/12/2009 20:05:16 SG List : * 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Backup Type : INCREMENTAL 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Database Name : 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Buffers : 3 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Buffersize : 1024 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Exchange Server : *******EXCH** 12/12/2009 20:05:16 TSM Node Name : 12/12/2009 20:05:16 TSM Options File : dsm.weekly.opt 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Mount Wait : Yes 12/12/2009 20:05:16 Quiet : No 12/12/2009 20:05:16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Total storage groups requested for backup: 4 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Total storage groups backed up: 4 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Total storage groups expired: 0 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Total storage groups excluded: 0 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Throughput rate: 17,087.00 Kb/Sec 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Total bytes transferred: 1,924,154,600 12/12/2009 20:07:08 Elapsed processing time: 109.97 Secs Has anyone else seen this, or heard of this? Folks here are kind of panicking because the restore they need is for an exec (CxO). I wanted to seek it out here before I opened a ticket with IBM just in case someone already resolved this problem. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!