I'm not sure it is supported but it works for us when we run the TSM
Scheduler service with an ID that has rights to the UNC connections that
you are trying to back up. Then, put the shares in the domain statement in
the dsm.opt file.

domain c: d: \\servername\Home_ckpt_bk \\servername\UserData_ckpt_bk
systemobject

Again, if you do this then the TSM service needs to be running with an
account that has rights to connect to and read the files in
\\servername\Home_ckpt_bk and \\servername\UserData_ckpt_bk.





             Yiannakis Vakis
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To overcome this problem (as Bill said) you have to logon with the user
that
has the CIFS mount permanently and lock your server (do not logoff with
that
account). This way the schedule will work.
Yiannakis

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:51 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Scheduled backups won't find paths that manual/GUI backups do

TSM Server 5.3.15
TSM Client - Windows V5.3.0.15 - Windows 2003 Server SP1

This client is connected to our EMC Celerra NAS. It is setup to perform the
backups, web-interface, etc.  The mounts are CIFS, however we have tried
doing standard "drive letter" mounts.

Here is the problem.

The Windows GUI can see and backup this CIFS mount, no problem.  Perfectly
happy.

TSM scheduled incremental backups fail/do not see the mount.

So, we tried a manual backup creating a CMD file and run DSMC.  The command
we run is:

dsmc i -optfile="c:\rose\rose-ots\dsm-ots.opt"  -subdir=yes
"\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*"

If we run this backup, manualy, it works great.

If the TSM schedule invokes the backup/CMD, it always errors with:

Incremental backup of volume '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*'
ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rose.adm.adp.vcu.edu\ots\*' failed ANS1063E
Invalid path specification

We have tried every combination we can think of, we no luck.

What are we missing ?