Hi everyone,

I need some inspiration on a problem occuring at one of our customers sites. I am searching on Google and on the IBM site for some time now with no result.

I have installed TSM Client 6.3.0.18 64bit on an Windows 2008 Hyper-V-Host. I can backup all Hyper-V guests running on this host - expect of one.

The Hyper-V guest "astarix" comes up with an VSS error when running "backup vm". Astarix is an Windows 2008 R2 system. It has on 50GB disk C: with 10GB free on it. The storage on which the virtual machine resides has about 500GB free space. Vssadmin list writers on astarix and also the Hyper-V-Host did not show any problems. Creating/deleting a snapshot for astarix from the Hyper-V-Console works. Backing up other Hyper-V guests works. This includes Windows 2003 and also other Windows 2008 Systems. I also tried TSM client 6.4.0.0. Same error message.

Here is the content from the error log and the dsmc output.

DSMC Output
Code:
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc backup vm -vmlist=astarix -vmbackup
type=HyperVFull
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 6, Release 4, Level 0.0
  Client date/time: 12/04/2012 08:52:47
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2012. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: hypervcluster
Session established with server TSM_SERVER1: Windows
  Server Version 6, Release 3, Level 0.0
  Server date/time: 12/04/2012 08:52:47  Last access: 12/04/2012 08:52:23

Backup VM command started.  Total number of virtual machines to process: 1

Starting Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'astarix'

ANS1959I Removing previous incomplete group '\astarix' Id:0-45707120
ANS1062E Only a single image may be selected when a destination is entered.



ANS9301E Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'astarix' failed with RC 109


ANS1062E Only a single image may be selected when a destination is entered.



Backup VM command complete
Total number of virtual machines backed up successfully: 0
Total number of virtual machines failed: 1
Total number of virtual machines processed: 1

errorlog content
Code:
12/04/2012 08:52:32 ANS9301E Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'astarix' failed with RC 109
12/04/2012 08:52:32 ANS1062E Only a single image may be selected when a destination is entered.*




12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : AddFileToRequest
* *TSM function * * *: ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() for drive 'h:\Storage\Volume8\' returned 0
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssreq.cpp (5296)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : AddFileToRequest
* *TSM function * * *: ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() for drive 'h:\Storage\Volume8\' returned 0
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssreq.cpp (5296)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : AddFileToRequest
* *TSM function * * *: ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() for drive 'h:\Storage\Volume8\' returned 0
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssreq.cpp (5296)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : AddFileToRequest
* *TSM function * * *: ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup() for drive 'h:\Storage\Volume8\' returned 0
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssreq.cpp (5296)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : vssSaveManagedCapacityInfo
* *TSM function * * *: Invalid parameter passed to function.
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssback.cpp (6953)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : vssSaveManagedCapacityInfo()
* *TSM function * * *: can not save managed capacity
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\winnt\vssback.cpp (6464)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : baCreateLocalBackup
* *TSM function * * *: VSS Create Local Backup Failed
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\ba\backsnap.cpp (2323)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
* *TSM function name : baProcessRequest
* *TSM function * * *: VSS Create Local Backup failed
* *TSM return code * : 109
* *TSM file * * * * *: ..\..\common\ba\incrdrv.cpp (7154)*
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS1062E Only a single image may be selected when a destination is entered.*

12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS9301E Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'astarix' failed with RC 109
12/04/2012 08:52:56 ANS1062E Only a single image may be selected when a destination is entered.
Any help is greatly apreciated
Stefan