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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Good Day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this is my first time posting. it is great to talk to everyone here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so i have an issue where mmbackup is not working properly and i don't know why.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Problem: mmbackup doesn't find any files that are eligible for backup. i used to work with dsmc and it is working fine but i want to employ the snapshot option within mmbackup.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">here are my steps:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">backup to tsm with mmbackup using the full backup option . that took around one month</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tried to do an incremental backup with mmbackup against a snapshot (Failed)</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tried to rebuild shadow database then backup but that failed as well</span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">tried dsmc incremental which found eligible files and worked</span></li></ol>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">i want to use snapshots which seems to be problematic </span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">please let me know if you have any recommendations or ideas</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>command used:</b></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mmbackup /gpfs/mariana/home/ -S home_snapshot_2024-01-25-09-23 -t incremental -L 2 -d --scope inodespace -v</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>logs:</b></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DEBUGtsbackup33:oldShadow found, validShadows: 1</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DEBUGtsbackup33:shadow DB /gpfs/mariana/home/.mmbackupShadow.1.gv-backup.fileset format version 1400</span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: Rule# Hit_Cnt KB_Hit Chosen KB_Chosen KB_Ill
Rule</span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: 0 86091506 16736 0 0 0 RULE 'Exclude<br>
Rule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.gv-backup' EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES_PLUS WHERE(.)<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: 1 0 0 0 0 0 RULE 'BackupR<br>
ule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.gv-backup' DIRECTORIES_PLUS SHOW(.) WHERE(.)<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: <br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: [I] Filesystem objects with no applicable rules: 0.<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: <br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: Predicted Data Pool Utilization in KB and %:<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: Pool_Name KB_Occupied KB_Total Percent_Occupied<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: policy0: system 623453700096 1595564097536 39.074187058%<br>
Thu Jan 25 10:01:09 2024 mmbackup:New list file /gpfs/mariana/home/.mmbackupCfg/prepFiles/list.mmbackup.1.gv-backup is missing or emp<br>
ty. <br>
Do the TSM include/exclude rules exclude all contents of /gpfs/mariana/home for TSM server gv-backup ?<br>
Thu Jan 25 10:01:09 2024 mmbackup:No changed or deleted files for mariana.home since mmbackup was last invoked.<br>
DEBUGtsbackup33: Changed:0 Backed:0 Excl:0 DSMC:0 anyFail:1 Audit:0 Severe:0 FailuresFound:0<br>
Thu Jan 25 10:01:09 2024 mmbackup:Incremental backup completely failed. <br>
TSM had 0 severe errors and returned 0. See the TSM log file for more information.<br>
0 files had errors, <br>
TSM exit status: exit 12<br>
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mmbackup: Backup of /gpfs/mariana/home completed with errors at Thu Jan 25 10:01:09 EET 2024.<br>
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mmbackup: Command failed. Examine previous error messages to determine cause.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>i will also add the policy file</b></span></div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RULE 'ExcludeRule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.gv-backup' EXCLUDE DIRECTORIES_PLUS </span></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> WHERE <br>
((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.TsmCacheDir' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.TsmCacheDir/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.pip%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.pip%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/site-packages%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/site-packages%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/pip%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/pip%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.local%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.local%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.cache%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.cache%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/cache%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/cache%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.tmp%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.tmp%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/tmp%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/tmp%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.miniconda%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.miniconda%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/miniconda%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/miniconda%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.snapshots' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.snapshots/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.conda%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/.conda%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '%/conda%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '%/conda%%%/%')) <br>
OR ((PATH_NAME LIKE '/gpfs/mariana/home/.snapshots/home_snapshot_2024-01-25-09-23/nagyim/%%%' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME<br>
LIKE '/gpfs/mariana/home/.snapshots/home_snapshot_2024-01-25-09-23/nagyim/%%%/%')) <br>
OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmbackup%') OR<br>
(PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmLockDir' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR<br>
(PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmLockDir/%') OR<br>
(MODE LIKE 's%') <br>
OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '/gpfs/mariana/.mmSharedTmpDir' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR<br>
(PATH_NAME LIKE '/gpfs/mariana/.mmSharedTmpDir/%')<br>
OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.SpaceMan' AND MODE LIKE 'd%') OR (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.SpaceMan/%') <br>
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RULE 'BackupRule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.gv-backup' DIRECTORIES_PLUS <br>
SHOW(VARCHAR(MODIFICATION_TIME) || ' ' || VARCHAR(CHANGE_TIME) || ' ' ||<br>
VARCHAR(FILE_SIZE) || ' ' || VARCHAR(FILESET_NAME) ||<br>
' ' || 'resdnt' )<br>
WHERE <br>
(MISC_ATTRIBUTES LIKE '%u%')<br>
AND (NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%.swp' AND NOT MODE LIKE 'd%' ))<br>
AND (NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%.tmp' AND NOT MODE LIKE 'd%' ))<br>
OR (((PATH_NAME LIKE '/gpfs/mariana/home/.snapshots/home_snapshot_2024-01-25-09-23/%') AND (MISC_ATTRIBUTES LIKE '%u%') ) AND<br>
((NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%.swp' AND NOT MODE LIKE 'd%' ))) AND<br>
((NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%.tmp' AND NOT MODE LIKE 'd%' ))) )<br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kind Regards,</span></p>
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