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Backup Job Error Report

The backup job error report is a CMS NOTE from the CA VM:Backup service virtual machine. This error report contains a message for each minidisk, file space, directory (for directory-level backups), or abstract domain that required special processing during the backup. For example, the report would indicate that a special CMS minidisk (for example, a reserved minidisk) was encountered and backed up in physical format.

Note: On some occasions this report may not include SFS file pools that were not backed up.

This report does not include information about exceptional processing requested by an exception file. For example, it does not indicate whether encryption was used in the job. It also does not list the specific files, tracks, and blocks excluded from the job.

The error report also contains messages for each file pool, user storage group, file space, minidisk, directory, or abstract domain that encountered errors during the backup. For example, if a CMS minidisk error results in a physical backup of that minidisk, this is noted in this report.

If special processing or errors occurred, the report contains the following information for each entity included in the job:

• Name of the backup job template file
• User ID and virtual address of the minidisk, or name of the file pool, user storage group, file space, directory, or abstract domain
• Descriptive notes explaining the special processing performed or errors that occurred

If no special processing or errors occurred, a message indicates that all data was successfully processed. All message numbers ending with the severity code E (for example, VMB0754E) indicate that the minidisk was not backed up.