DB backup still running, but in DB13 already status "Finished with errors"

Question

Hi,
firstly, I am not regular DB administrator, so please be patient with me.
On 5.4.2010, 20:00 started on our server regullary planned online complete DB backup. Now (runing for more than 39 hours - DB size is only 300GB and last time, when it successfully finished, it takes less than 12 hours) I see in DB13 this backup with status "Finished with errors", but in SM37 this job is still with status "Active" so it seems to be running. On HDD where backup should be stored is created file with size 0 B. In job protocol and program protocol are only standard messages, nothing indicates that there is any error. OS is Windows Server 2008.
Program log:
DBA Action starts:
Timestamp: 20100405200040   Function: sda   Object: DATA
SAVE/RESTORE request:
SAVE DATA QUICK TO 'D:\DB_BACKUP' FILE BLOCKSIZE 8 NO CHECKPOINT MEDIANAME 'COMPLETE_DB_BACKUP'
SAVE/RESTORE request accepted:
OK
Job log:
05.04.2010     20:00:38     Job wurde gestartet
05.04.2010     20:00:38     Step 001 gestartet (Programm RSDBAJOB, Variante &0000000000001, Benutzername *****)
05.04.2010     20:00:38     Execute logical command DBMCLI On host *****
05.04.2010     20:00:38     Parameters:-d D01 -n ***** -uUTL -tpi D01 -tpp no_longer_used -tpc D01 backup_start COMPLETE_DB_BACKUP REC
05.04.2010     20:00:38     OVERY DATA AUTOIGNORE
Anybody have idea what is doing there?

Answer 1

Thanks Adrian,
in DB50, DBAHIST has following record for this backup:
04-05 20:00:40 20100405200040 sda D01      DATA             9999 20100405200040
so it is still active. But when i launched DB50, there appears popup with question
Do you want to branch to the "Open Alerts" display ?
when i choose Yes, alerts are displayed, and there are some records like this
07.04.2010     14:50:08     D01     MaxDB Monitoring: D01     Last Backup     Last Complete Data Backup Return Code     ACTIVE     0002 - ERROR
i dont know if it means anything...
Also in table SDBADSDB is following record:
1     20:00:00     20100216134109     D01     20100405200000     20100405200038     ALLNC     sda     20100405200040     20100405200040     9999          Update task ADA_INSERT_SDBADSDB 01     
=> EXT2 contains "Update task ADA_INSERT_SDBADSDB 01"
So I think only opening CSN message is only applicable here... but how to do it and what exactly is CSN message (like I said, I am not regular administrator...)?
And also I have found another strange issue - although file with DB backup has still 0 B, free space on that HDD is still shrinking, but no sizes of directories are increasing... in numbers - all files on that HDD (including hidden and system files) have 663 GB, but in properties of this HDD is that 1.06 TB is used - so the difference is cca 400GB (what is 2x more than previous complete DB backup and +100GB to actual DB size...).
Edited by: Peter Marko on Apr 7, 2010 5:10 PM