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ANS1802E message is appeared while backup, but completion status is success.

Troubleshooting


Problem

ANS1802E error message is appeared while backup, although there is no any failed objects.

Symptom

dsmerror.log
ANS1802E Incremental backup of 'd$\xxx\YYY\zzz\*' finished with 0 failure.

example for backup log
Incremental backup for volume 'D:\xxx\YYY\*'

Incremental backup for volume 'D:\xxx\YYY\zzz\*'
....
Normal File -->     9,500,248,064 d$\xxx\YYY\zzz\12345678_abcdef.dmp *** Unsuccessful ***
Retry #1 Normal File -->     9,500,248,064 d$\xxx\YYY\zzz\12345678_abcdef.dmp [Sent]
ANS1802E Incremental backup of 'd$\xxx\YYY\zzz\*' finished with 0 failure
.....
Incremental backup for 'd$\xxx\YYY\*' is completed successfully.


Total number of objects inspected:           37,617
Total number of objects backed up:              426
Total number of objects updated:                     0
Total number of objects rebound:                     0
Total number of objects deleted:                      0
Total number of objects expired:                    45
Total number of objects failed:                         0
Total number of objects encrypted:                  0
Total objects deduplicated:                          257
Total number of objects grew:                         0
Total number of retries:                                   4
Total number of bytes inspected:       64.37 GB
Total number of bytes processed:     144.74 KB
Total bytes before deduplication:         34.31 GB
Total bytes after deduplication:          196.37 MB
Total number of bytes transferred:     196.68 MB

Cause

ANS1802E is appeared since the initial attempts to send several transactions are failed because some object are modified (please, refer to line with 'retry #1' in backup standard output log) during backup processing. However the next attempts is successful and as a result the number of failed objects is 0.
In the case of deduplication the client starts a new consumer session if the transaction is aborted (like in the current case when some objects are modified).
Since retries are successful the ANS1802E message with just 0 failures appears.

Resolving The Problem

Ignore the error message and return code 12 if "Total number of objects failed" is 0.

 

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Document Information

Modified date:
29 August 2018

UID

ibm10728933