Author: "Bell, Charles (Chip)" <Chip.Bell AT BHSALA DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:34:27 -0500
I set up a couple of Vista Enterprise clients with v5.5.1.1, and it appears that they are backing up mostly everything, every night. What's up with that? Has anyone else seen that behavior, or is thi
Author: Richard Mochnaczewski <Richard.Mochnaczewski AT STANDARDLIFE DOT CA>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:37:13 -0400
Check your management class and make sure it is not set to Always backup files for an incremental backup. Rich I set up a couple of Vista Enterprise clients with v5.5.1.1, and it appears that they ar
Does "mostly everything" include your data directories, or just Windows stuff that could be grabbed as part of system state? There were reports of Vista system state backups routinely taking ~8G earl
Author: "Bell, Charles (Chip)" <Chip.Bell AT BHSALA DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:52:08 -0500
It's not. I lumped it into the domain with all of my other Windows machines. Check your management class and make sure it is not set to Always backup files for an incremental backup. Rich I set up a
. It's the Vista System State. I opened a PMR with IBM about this, and they said "Broken as Microsoft designed it". The only way to back up a Vista System State is to do a full backup. Incrementals a
Author: Orville Lantto <orville.lantto AT GLASSHOUSE DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:21:49 -0400
How about assigning System State to its own management class and using the Frequency option? Orville Lantto --Original Message-- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Author: Steven Harris <steve AT STEVENHARRIS DOT INFO>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:10:45 +1100
How about a pre-cmd to backup systemstate to a file using ntbackup - or whatever else Vista comes with - and an optfile that makes that file use subfile backup? Steve Harris Orville Lantto --Original
We tried this with earlier releases of TSM and Windows, and found that TSM did not obey frequency for System Object backups. We haven't tried this with Vista. I agree that this is a problem - it's a