1. offload VMWare hosts from backup processing
2. bare-metal recoverability
-steve

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Wojtek Piecek
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:41 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VCB Integration, specifically how to do incrementals

Some of users report problem with integrating VCB and tsm version 5.2.

Another question is why use vcb, when You have excelent tsm client for
quest, especialy with some extra function like full, increment and
other level backup - I still cant understand why use vcb.

On Dec 21, 2007 7:14 PM, Schaub, Steve <steve_schaub AT bcbst DOT com> wrote:
> Steve,
> Unfortunately, our TSM servers are still at the 5.2 level (owned by
> another group), so the 5.5 client features are not yet available to me.
> But they look very appealing.
> -steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Steven Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:06 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VCB Integration, specifically how to do
> incrementals
>
> Hi Steve
>
> I can't help with your query, but are you using the new facilities of
> 5.5
> client?  If so I would be most grateful if you could post your
> experiences
> here when you have some to share.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Harris
> TSM Admin, Sydney Australia
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 19/12/2007
> 06:45:22 AM:
>
> > I'm working on integrating TSM into VMWare's VI3 VCB, and I'm running
> > into a minor glitch.
> >
> > I'm thinking about doing a weekly full VCB snap, and using TSM to
> > archive these - this works no problem.
> >
> > I want also to do a daily file-level VCB snap, and perform a TSM
> > incremental on the mounted filesystem.
> >
> > The problem I'm having is that my script isn't going to know what
> > volumes are on each vm, and because VCB uses ntfs mount points, I have
> > to explicitly identify each one in my incremental backup command.
> >
> > Anyone have a good way of finding and parsing a list of mount points
> > within a windows .cmd batch script?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Steve Schaub
> >
> > Systems Engineer, Windows
> >
> > Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee
> >
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> >
> > 423-785-7347 (mobile)
> >
> >
> >
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