I’ve got an application that has burned me a couple of times of late. We’re using IBM’s TSM for SAP/R3 (or MySAP.com as it is now being branded) to back up a 1.2 TB database nightly. There have been a couple of times when the backup has ‘hung’ and never completed – and subsequent backups never start, because there’s one ‘in process’.
How are the rest of you handling this sort of test? Code the BB start/finish within the backup script and page on purple if it runs long? Run a BB process that checks the status externally from logs or the running process list?
Robert, Sean – what are you doing with the ‘bkp’ test you show on your demo install?
TIA
Tom Kauffman