Wanda, Sorry, I meant to include that. The TSM client is AIX 5.3.4.2, running on a AIX 5.3ML5.
Best Regards, John D. Schneider Lead Systems Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health Systems 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO 63127 Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-486-2359 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 2:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM client ignores filesystems mounted by TSM preschedule command Is this AIX or Solaris? > Greetings, > I have a situation where the TSM client seems to be ignoring some > mounted filesystems. > I have a need to have a TSM preschedule command which imports some > volume groups and mounts their filesystems. (This data is an EMC disk > clone of another system, but that is immaterial). > Once the preschedule command mounts the filesystems, I run an > incremental of the system which should back up only those filesystems > that are the ones I just mounted, which happen to all be mounts behind > the same mount point /tsmprdaok. My include/exclude file is extremely > simple: > > exclude /.../* > include /tsmprdaok/.../* > > ( I know this will need to exclude other filesystems eventually, but > for the sake of keeping it simple this is how it is for now.) When the > backup runs, it produces: > > Executing scheduled command now. > 10/18/07 17:45:12 > Executing Operating System command or script: > /opt/misd/bin/importPrdVg prdaok > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Finished command. Return code is: 0 > 10/18/07 17:45:29 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @27 10/18/07 17:42:38 > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/' > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/usr' > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/var' > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/home' > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt' > 10/18/07 17:45:29 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools' > > It does not list any of the filesystems (16 in all) that are mounted > by the preschedule onto /tsmprdaok. Yes, I have verified that the > filesystems are really being mounted by issuing a 'df' while the > backup is running. > > If I issue the preschedule command manually to mount the filesystems, > and then run a plain scheduled backup, it produces: > > Executing scheduled command now. > 10/19/07 13:50:42 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @28 10/19/07 13:49:05 > 10/19/07 13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/' > 10/19/07 13:50:42 Incremental backup of volume '/usr' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/var' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/home' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/opt/emctools' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume '/tsmprdaok/epic' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/clarity' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok/xfile' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok03' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok04' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok05' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok06' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok07' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok08' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok09' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok10' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok01' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaok02' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokwta' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokjrn' > 10/19/07 13:50:43 Incremental backup of volume > '/tsmprdaok/epic/prdaokaltjrn' > > What gives? Why does it work when I mount the filesystems before I > run the incremental, but when the filesystems are mounted from inside > a preschedule command TSM ignores them? > > Asked another way, when does the TSM scheduler look at the OS and > decide what filesystems exist? Does this happen before or after the > preschedule runs? Is there any way to control this behavior? > > > Best Regards, > > John D. Schneider > Lead Systems Administrator - Storage > Sisters of Mercy Health Systems > 3637 South Geyer Road > St. Louis, MO 63127 > Phone: 314-364-3150 > Cell: 314-486-2359 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >