Thanks for adding that, I forgot to include that info. But I was assuming that this setting had not been changed and was defaulting to not preserve the database.
Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Dave Canan [mailto:ddcanan@;ATTGLOBAL.NET] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Journaling Again In Version 5.1, a new parameter was introduced in the tsmjbbd.ini file named PreserveDbOnExit . If this is set to a value of 1, then the journal is preserved across journal service restarts and reboots. It defaults to 0, which means invalidate the journal across restarts and reboots. At 12:14 PM 10/31/2002 -0600, you wrote: >If you stop and restart the service, then tonight's backup will be a full >incremental. The journal service has to be running continuously between 2 >backups or TSM will always default to a full incremental. > >Ryan Miller > >Principal Financial Group > >Tivoli Certified Consultant >Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL@;SAIC.COM] >Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:57 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Journaling Again > > > > 1. First of all, look in the dsmsched.log file and look to see if > > you have the message: > > > > Using journal for '\\xxx-yyyyyyyy\c$' > >It's not there but the service is started. > > > If you see this message, a journaled backup has taken place for > > that filespace. You should see this message > > at the start of the backup. > > > > 2. Verify that the journal size is adequate. If you see a message > > like the following in the jbberror.log, your journal size (specified by > > parameter JournalDBSize in tsmjbbd.ini) is set too low. If you take the > > default (as specified by Pete Tanenhaus > > in previous posts as a recommendation) you should not have this problem. > >This is set to the default and there is no error message in this log >I guess I'll stop and restart the service and see what kind of reports I get >tonight. > >Geoff Gill >TSM Administrator >NT Systems Support Engineer >SAIC >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Phone: (858) 826-4062 >Pager: (877) 905-7154 Dave Canan IBM Advanced Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]