Hi Andy, Thank you for clarifying things - a bit. However, why would certain nodes have enormously large numbers vs the average when all things are equal as far as policies are concerned?
I do see average systemstate object delete counts in the *1-2M range* but these 4-nodes are exceeding *200M* each. On this server, I deleted the systemstate for 60-nodes. Only 9-exceeded 1M and of those 1-exceeded 2M. This last node deletion is still running after 3-hours of deletion. 2019-02-26 08:57:56 Deleting file space ORIONADDWEB\SystemState\NULL\System State\SystemState (fsId=1) (backup data) for node ORIONADDWEB: 243,029,858 objects deleted. Even the 3-nodes whose deletion failed (after deleting >110M objects each) due to some kind of bitfile error - after restarting the deletions are up to 50M+ each and still running? On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:30 AM Andrew Raibeck <stor...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > The large number of objects is normal for system state file spaces. System > state backup uses grouping, with each backed up object being a member of > the group. If the same object is included in multiple groups, then it will > be counted more than once. Each system state backup creates a new group, so > as the number of retained backup versions grows, so does the number of > groups, and thus the total object count can grow very large. > > Best regards, > > Andy > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > Andrew Raibeck | IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 | stor...@us.ibm.com > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2019-02-26 > 10:30:04: > > > From: Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu> > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Date: 2019-02-26 10:30 > > Subject: Re: Bottomless pit > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > Just found another node with a similar issue on a different ISP server > with > > different software levels (client=7.1.4.4 and OS=Windows 2012R2). The > node > > name is the same so I think the application is, as well. > > > > 2019-02-26 08:57:56 Deleting file space ORIONADDWEB\SystemState\NULL > \System > > State\SystemState (fsId=1) (backup data) for node ORIONADDWEB: > *129,785,134 > > objects deleted*. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:15 AM Sasa Drnjevic <sasa.drnje...@srce.hr> > wrote: > > > > > On 26.2.2019. 15:01, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > > > Since all of these systemstate deletes crashed/failed, I restarted > them > > > and > > > > 2-of the 3 are already up to 5M objects after running for 30-minutes. > > > Will > > > > this ever end successfully? > > > > > > All of mine did finish successfully... > > > > > > But, none of them had more than 25 mil files deleted. > > > > > > Wish you luck ;-) > > > > > > Rgds, > > > > > > -- > > > Sasa Drnjevic > > > www.srce.unizg.hr/en/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Sasa Drnjevic <sasa.drnje...@srce.hr > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> FYI, > > > >> same here...but my range/ratio was: > > > >> > > > >> ~2 mil occ to 25 mil deleted objects... > > > >> > > > >> Never solved the mystery... gave up :-> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Sasa Drnjevic > > > >> www.srce.unizg.hr/en/ > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On 2019-02-25 20:05, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > > >>> Here is a new one....... > > > >>> > > > >>> We turned off backing up SystemState last week. Now I am going > through > > > >> and > > > >>> deleted the Systemstate filesystems. > > > >>> > > > >>> Since I wanted to see how many objects would be deleted, I did a "Q > > > >>> OCCUPANCY" and preserved the file count numbers for all Windows > nodes > > > on > > > >>> this server. > > > >>> > > > >>> For 4-nodes, the delete of their systemstate filespaces has been > > > running > > > >>> for 5-hours. A "Q PROC" shows: > > > >>> > > > >>> 2019-02-25 08:52:05 Deleting file space > > > >>> ORION-POLL-WEST\SystemState\NULL\System State\SystemState (fsId=1) > > > >> (backup > > > >>> data) for node ORION-POLL-WEST: *105,511,859 objects deleted*. > > > >>> > > > >>> Considering the occupancy for this node was *~5-Million objects*, > how > > > has > > > >>> it deleted *105-Million* objects (and counting). The other 3-nodes > in > > > >>> question are also up to *>100-Million objects deleted* and none of > them > > > >> had > > > >>> more than *6M objects* in occupancy? > > > >>> > > > >>> At this rate, the deleting objects count for 4-nodes systemstate > will > > > >>> exceed 50% of the total occupancy objects on this server that > houses > > > the > > > >>> backups for* 263-nodes*? > > > >>> > > > >>> I vaguely remember some bug/APAR about systemstate backups being > > > >>> large/slow/causing performance problems with expiration but these > nodes > > > >>> client levels are fairly current (8.1.0.2 - staying below the > > > >> 8.1.2/SSL/TLS > > > >>> enforcement levels) and the ISP server is 7.1.7.400. All of these > are > > > >>> Windows 2016, if that matters. > > > >>> > > > >>> -- > > > >>> *Zoltan Forray* > > > >>> Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. 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