TSM server vs. client backup

[THOR01]

Preface:
I've been trying to get Mgmt to allow me to upgrade the server and TSM for 2 years now, BUT... they haven't yet, But maybe next month.

ISSUE:
I have a AIX 4.3 TSM 5.1 server and windows 5.2 clients. When I run the incr from the client dsmc the exlcude.dir (expl: exclude.dir "*:\...\McAfee) is read and it's excluded but when the schedule on the server touches it, it doesn't read these and they are backed up. I've been stating to mgmt that it's the down level server vs. client but the TSM books state that a 5.2, 5.3 client can be backed up on a 5.1 server. So they think it's something else that I've missed in configuration.
Any ideas?

 

[ProbablyDown]

Is there any chance that the client option on the tsm server is overriding the exclude for that node? I'd be interested to see the clopt to which that node belongs.

And yes.. management should allow you to upgrade since SOO many things have been fixed since tsm 5.1, not to mention the fact that it is WAYYYYYYY out of suppport...

So get the clopt the node is using - q node <nodename> f=d
and look for client option set

then check/post the clopt itself - q clopt <cloptname> f=d

 

[THOR01]

Not using any clopt settings.

 

[ProbablyDown]

Hmm.. too bad.. that would have been the easy answer. The other thing you can try is adding a couple more excludes:

exclude "*:\...\McAfee\*"
exclude ""*:\...\McAfee\...\*"

Aside from that, not sure why there would be a different behavior unless the scheduler on the client is pointing to a different dsm.opt file?

 

[THOR01]

Here is the inclexcl from the opt file:

Include.Encryption "C:\*"
Exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*"
Exclude "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.*"
Exclude "*:\...\EA DATA. SF"
Exclude "*:\...\pagefile.sys"
Exclude "*:\IBMBIO.COM"
Exclude "*:\IBMDOS.COM"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\LogFiles"
Exclude "*:\IO.SYS"
Exclude.File "*:\...\*.dat.LOG"
Exclude.File "F:\Drive"
Exclude "*:\...\*.dat"
Exclude "*:\...\*.Evt"
Exclude.Dir "*:\DataStore\Logs"
Exclude.File "C:\...\Scheduler.log"
Exclude.Dir "*:\System Volume Information"
Exclude.Dir "C:\...\Temporary Internet Files"
Exclude.Dir "*:\Recycled"
Exclude.Dir "*:\Recycler"
Exclude.Dir "*:\Temp"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\CoriCB\MPI41\Arc"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\Tripwire\TE\Agent\data\log"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\Tripwire\TE\Agent\tmp"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Documents and Settings\SQL.User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows"
Exclude.Dir "*:\NetworkService"
Exclude.Dir "*:\LocalService"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Program Files\CoriCB\MPI41\Arc"
Exclude.Dir "C:\Reporting*"
Exclude.Dir "*:\...\McAfee"
Exclude.Dir "*:\...\MSSQL\LOG"
Exclude.Dir "*:\...\system32\config\...\*"
Exclude.Dir "*:\...\system32\dhcp\...\*"
Exclude.Dir "*:\...\system32\dns\...\*"
Exclude.Dir "F:\*"
Exclude.Dir "D:\*"
Exclude.Dir "D:\Exclude"

 

[THOR01]

From the Client node dsmc command:
tsm> q options
ACTIVATEKEY: YES
AFSBACKUPMNTPNT: YES
ALLOWWILDCARDCH: NO
ARCHSYMLINKASFILE: YES
AUTOFSRENAME: NO
AUTOMOUNT:
BACKUPREGISTRY: YES
CANDIDATESINTERVAL: 1
CASESENSITIVEAWARE: NO
CHANGINGRETRIES: 4
CHECKFORORPHANS: NO
CHECKTHRESHOLDS: 5
CLUSTERDISKSONLY: YES
CLUSTERNODE: NO
COMMMETHOD: T
COLLOCATEBYFILESPEC: NO
COMMRESTARTDURATION: 60
COMMRESTARTINTERVAL: 15
COMPRESSALWAYS: YES
COMPRESSION: NO
DATEFORMAT: 1
DEFAULTSERVER:
DFSBACKUPMNTPNT: YES
DIRMC:
DOMAIN:
\\server02\c$
\\server02\d$
\\server02\f$
SYSTEMSTATE
SYSTEMSERVICES
DOMAIN.IMAGE:
DOMAIN.NAS:
EDITOR: YES
ENABLEARCHIVERETENTIONPROTECTION: NO
ENABLELANFREE: NO
ENABLESERVERFREE: NO
ENCRYPTKEY: SAVE
ERRORLOGNAME: dsmerror.log
ERRORLOGRETENTION: 10, D
ERRORPROG:
EVENTLOGGING: NO
FASTQUERYBACKUP: NO
FOLLOWSYMBOLIC: NO
FRSPRIMARYRESTORE: NO
GROUPS:
GUITREEVIEWAFTERBACKUP: NO
HTTPPORT: 1581
HTTPSPORT: 0
IMAGEGAPSIZE: 32
INCRTHRESHOLD: 0
KERNELMESSAGES: YES
LANGUAGE: dscenu.txt
LANFREECOMMMETHOD: N
LANFREESHMPORT: 1510
LANFREETCPPORT: 1500
LANFREETCPSERVERADDRESS: 127.0.0.1
LARGECOMMBUFFERS: NO
LOCALBACKUPSET: NO
MACHINENAME: SERVER02
MAILPROG:
MAKESPARSEFILE: YES
MANAGEDSERVICES: WEBCLIENT
MATCHALLCHAR: *?
MATCHONECHAR: ?
MAXCANDPROCS: 5
MAXCMDRETRIES: 2
MAXMIGRATORS: 1
MAXRECALLDAEMONS: 20
MAXRECONCILEPROC: 3
MAXTHRESHOLDPROC: 3
MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP: NO
MIGFILEEXPIRATION: 7
MIGRATESERVER:
MINMIGFILESIZE: 0
MINRECALLDAEMONS: 3
NAMEDPIPENAME: \\.\pipe\Server1
NASNODENAME:
NFSTIMEOUT: 0
NODENAME: SERVER02
NUMBERFORMAT: 1
NWEXITNLMPROMPT: 0
NWIGNORECOMPRESSBIT: NO
NWIPCPORT: 0
NWPWFILE: YES
OPTFILE:
OPTIONFORMAT: 0
OVERLAPRECALL: NO
PASSWORDACCESS: GENERATE
PASSWORDDIR:
POSTNSCHEDULECMD:
POSTSCHEDULECMD:
POSTSNAPSHOTCMD:
PRENSCHEDULECMD:
PRESCHEDULECMD:
PRESERVELASTACCESSDATE: NO
PRESNAPSHOTCMD:
PROCESSORUTILIZATION: 0
QUERYSCHEDPERIOD: 12
QUIET/VERBOSE: VERBOSE
RECONCILEINTERVAL: 24
REPLACE: YES
RESETARCHIVEATTRIBUTE: NO
RESOURCEUTILIZATION: 0
RESTOREMIGSTATE: YES
RETRYPERIOD: 20
RUNASSERVICE: NO
SCHEDCMDDISABLED: NO
SCHEDCOMPLETEACTION: 0
SCHEDLOGNAME: dsmsched.log
SCHEDLOGRETENTION: 10, D
SCHEDMODE: POLLING
SCROLLLINES: 20
SCROLLPROMPT: NO
SERVERNAME: DSMSERV
SESSIONINITIATION: 1
SHMPORT: 1510
SHMQUEUENAME: \QUEUES\ADSM\DSMSERV
SKIPNTPERMISSIONS: NO
SKIPNTSECURITYCRC: NO
SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION:
SNAPSHOTCACHESIZE: 100
SNAPSHOTFSIDLERETRIES: 10
SNAPSHOTFSIDLEWAIT: 5S,1S; MINSET: 1
SUBDIR: NO
SUBFILEBACKUP: NO
SUBFILECACHEPATH:
SUBFILECACHESIZE: 10485760
TAPEPROMPT: NO
TCPADMINPORT: 0
TCPBUFFSIZE: 31744
TCPCLIENTADDRESS:
TCPCLIENTPORT: 1501
TCPNODELAY: NO
TCPPORT: 1500
TCPRECVDELAY: 0
TCPSENDDELAY: 0
TCPSERVERADDRESS: TSM_SERVER
TCPWINDOWSIZE: 64512
TESTFLAGS: Not yet implemented
TIMEFORMAT: 1
TRACEFILE:
TRACEFLAGS:
TRACEMAX: 0
TRACESEGSIZE: 0
TXNBYTELIMIT: 2097152
USEDIRECTORY: NO
USERS:
USEUNCNAMES: NO
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT:
VIRTUALNODENAME: SERVER02
WASEXPHOME:
WASHOME:
WASNDHOME:
WASOFFLINE: NO
WEBPORTS: 0
tsm>

 

[LED888]

...When I run the incr from the client dsmc the exlcude.dir (expl: exclude.dir "*:\...\McAfee) is read and it's excluded but when the schedule on the server touches it..."

It sounds like we forgot to stop/restart the schedule service when the dsm.opt file was updated.

When there are any updates made in the dsm.opt file, the schedule service need to be stop and restarted so that the new updates are read into memory.

Good Luck,
Sias