The system is a Dell Server, Win2000 Server, W2K SP2, BE v8.6, onboard DLT tape device.
Its been a while since I've had to investigate BE as its been running quite sweetly, however that changed yesterday. The tape failed to load for Mondays job and so I reset the job to run last night, inserting the tape at around 12:00. Half way through the afternoon I realised that another job was infact running on the specific tape even though this was NOT shown in the 'Activity Monitor' Window. I tried to eject the tape manually and this errored on the BE software stating a job was running, this then gave me the option to cancel the job which I did.
The Activity monitor then showed 2 jobs for the future date of 10/04/2002 I think it was 2002. I had not set these jobs. I deleted these jobs and then re-inserted the tape for last nights job.
I came in this morning and the pagefile on the server was empty and the server hardly responding, due to a lack of space in the pagefile. The error logs showed that the pagefile ran out of space 40 minutes after the backup job started.
The job starts at 20.00 and so no-one will have been in the building making chages to the files, but I thought BE created its own swop file for changes that occur while backing up and then backs this up at the end.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the pagefile ran out of space and also doesn't BE create its own swop file. Secondly can anyone explain the bizzare scheduled jobs for 10/04/2002
Any comments appreciated.
Cheers
Its been a while since I've had to investigate BE as its been running quite sweetly, however that changed yesterday. The tape failed to load for Mondays job and so I reset the job to run last night, inserting the tape at around 12:00. Half way through the afternoon I realised that another job was infact running on the specific tape even though this was NOT shown in the 'Activity Monitor' Window. I tried to eject the tape manually and this errored on the BE software stating a job was running, this then gave me the option to cancel the job which I did.
The Activity monitor then showed 2 jobs for the future date of 10/04/2002 I think it was 2002. I had not set these jobs. I deleted these jobs and then re-inserted the tape for last nights job.
I came in this morning and the pagefile on the server was empty and the server hardly responding, due to a lack of space in the pagefile. The error logs showed that the pagefile ran out of space 40 minutes after the backup job started.
The job starts at 20.00 and so no-one will have been in the building making chages to the files, but I thought BE created its own swop file for changes that occur while backing up and then backs this up at the end.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why the pagefile ran out of space and also doesn't BE create its own swop file. Secondly can anyone explain the bizzare scheduled jobs for 10/04/2002
Any comments appreciated.
Cheers