Greetings, I think I will weigh in on this one. I think most of our Windows TSM client missed/failed backups fall pretty evenly into four groups:
1) Fixable problems within the OS, including VSS and WMI service failures/hangs. Included in this group is the occasional corrupt file/filesystem, or Windows OS in memory meltdown. 2) On large filesystems, problems with the TSM scheduler or journal services hanging. Sometimes these are resolvable with Windows registry hacks, or "memoryefficientbackup yes", or adding "3GB" to the system.ini. 3) Unexplainable random events, where restarting the TSM services makes the problem disappear, but we can't prove there was a certain cause. 4) Fixable problems with our processes, like other admins taking down a system for maintencance, and not telling us to remove it from the schedule. In the past year we upgraded all ~1500 Windows clients here to 5.4.2.0 (except for the Windows 2000 servers, that had to stay behind on 5.3.6.) We tried various flavors of 5.5, but none were as reliable as 5.4.2, which sort of surprised me. We gave up trying 5.5 a few months ago, so maybe it is cleaned up by newer version now. We don't have enough hands to upgrade all the clients more than about once a year, so when we find a stable version, we generally stick with it. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Sisters of Mercy Health Systems Email: john.schnei...@mercy.net -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM V6 Tivoli Clients "VSS is like a nose. Sometimes it runs, sometimes it blows." --- me. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zfor...@vcu.edu>wrote: > And of course after M$ changes/fixes their problems, they screw-up the TSM > clients which results in another client > patch................lather--rinse--repeat > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 03/24/2009 > 02:46:48 PM: > > > From: > > > > Richard Sims <r...@bu.edu> > > > > To: > > > > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > > Date: > > > > 03/24/2009 02:48 PM > > > > Subject: > > > > Re: [ADSM-L] TSM V6 Tivoli Clients > > > > Sent by: > > > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > On Mar 24, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: > > > > > I agree there are too many issues with the 5.5 clients, I am also > > > hoping > > > for a big improvement with 6.x specifically regarding the VSS issues. > > > > From all I've read, the VSS issues are the result of ongoing > > Microsoft programming errors, of which IBM is just one of the victims. > > > > Richard Sims > This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering this to the addressee(s), you are notified that reading, copying or distributing this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately.
