This is from our GroupWise people:
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Our GW is running on NW5.0 SP5.
Yes, we back up all the GW boxen with agents running. I haven't checked the logs that
closely but suspect we're not getting open files. We're investigating reimplementing
St. Bernard OFM product at the moment to overcome that. Other than open files, I don't
think we have seen any issues.
I just did go and check a few of the logs, and it seems in fact we are getting good
backups. Since there's not a lot of client activity during backups, the user databases
are closed, or open for short periods, and get backed up. If open files are retried at
all, they would probably get caught the next try. There's naturally a lot of both new
and expired message files in the transaction areas, and I saw no problems there.
Another tidbit. I misspoke slightly earlier, or just mis-assumed. Below is a sample of
the failures we see. Apparently retries are not attempted on open files.
12/08/2000 02:28:23 ANS1228E Sending of object 'MAIL:/POB1/OFMSG/MSG6.DB' failed
12/08/2000 02:28:23 ANS4037E File 'MAIL:/POB1/OFMSG/MSG6.DB' changed during
processing. File skipped.
12/08/2000 02:51:23 ANS1228E Sending of object 'MAIL:/POB1/OFMSG/MSG8.DB' failed
12/08/2000 02:51:23 ANS4037E File 'MAIL:/POB1/OFMSG/MSG8.DB' changed during
processing. File skipped.
12/08/2000 03:57:14 ANS1802E Incremental backup of 'MAIL:' finished with 2 failure
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Louis J. Wiesemann 502-852-8952
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I am interested to know if anyone is using TSM to backup Groupwise running
on Novell Netware. If you are backing up Groupwise, are you using the
standard TSM backup/archive client and are there any issues regarding
recovery if you do the backups while the mail system is up?
