On Sep 21, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Avy Wong wrote:
I am having issues backing up WFSB03. It has Journaling on d $ . I have been keeping close watch on the throughput but it looks like it is slowing down. Is there a way to find out if the session is still alive? The 'IdleW ' state concerns me as this is the 3 time I tried to get this node backed up properly.
Avy - When posting, please supply the full info regarding a problem... You imply that the prior two attempts failed to back up the node: what condition or error was encountered in the presumed failures in the prior attempts? Consider the amount of inventory information being sent from the TSM server to the client: The client ostensibly needs to hold that info in memory, and if this is a modestly implemented computer, then the amount of real memory is probably limited, with a lot already being consumed by the OS and other apps on the machine; and if so, then virtual memory is being increasingly used, and certainly things will slow down. A good look at the Task Manager on that system may be revealing. This may be a very imbalanced Windows system, with far more data than it has realistic memory to deal with it all. Refer back to Andy's posting from yesterday afternoon. You seem to have a single Producer session chugging away, doing its best to collect the Active Files inventory from the server before starting traversal of the file system seeking backup candidates. And, with over a GB of data already having been sent from TSM server to client, this doesn't sound like a JBB to me. Richard Sims at Boston University