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Rerunning Backup of Skipped Files

The following example shows you how to periodically scan the TSM logs for backup failures and reactivate the backup on failed nodes. It also shows you how to configure CA SRM to send attentions by email with failed nodes and file names listed.

To scan the TSM logs periodically for backup failures, follow these steps:

1. Create a class, TSM_NODES, containing the TSM nodes you want to monitor.
2. Create a class, EXTRACT_FILES, containing the extract files from TSM log files you want to scan.
3. Define a TSM Client Message Scanner Service to scan the TSM logs on nodes belonging to TSM_NODES. Extract the lines that contain “backup failure” and send an email attention for each failed node.
4. Define an Automate service that checks for files in the EXTRACT_FILES class and restarts the TSM backup on nodes on which a file exists with a size greater than zero.

   Note: You can incorporate the service definitions into a single procedure.