Viewing logs
The DS‑Client logs information about scheduled and on-demand activities that you can use for monitoring and troubleshooting. You can configure how long the DS-Client keeps this information in its database. For more information, see
“Configuring the parameter settings”).
NOTE: Logs older than the defined retention period are automatically deleted by the Admin processes. However, for each existing backup set, the last 10 activities will be preserved even if they exceed the retention period for logs. This means some backup sets that have only a few activities might retain old logs indefinitely or until the backup set itself is deleted.
If a DS-Client fails to start due to a configuration, database, or other error, it will record errors in the operating system event log:
• For Windows, they are logged in the Event Viewer.
• For Linux, they are logged in /tmp/dsclient.err, or
/tmp/dsclient.out, or /var/log/messages.
• For Mac, they are logged in /Library/Logs or /var/log.