hi, i'm 14 years experienced UNIX admin with 8 years of background
with TSM, why the intro ?
'coz i'm now Windows System Admin :-)

the question is (my new project is windows servers backup, by
coincidence) if most of "us" are
utilizing these 2 methods (as mentioned i backuped HPUX and AIX with
no problems at all)
ntbackup or TSM with system state (where is system object?) HOW do
you/me restore
win server ?

i mean in case of disaster it would be nice to have all patches,
aplications, registry and
stuff as it were before "big" upgrade :-) right ?

thanks
(as is said, unix-tsm = 14 years | windows = 27 days)

thanks again

//
goran

2x TSM 5.4.1 on p640 + 12LTO1 + 6LTO3 + diskpools on XP12000
300 clients



On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Crosskey, Adam - Corporate Core - ICT
Services <Adam.Crosskey AT oxfordshire.gov DOT uk> wrote:
> Tim,
> You might want to take a look at MS KB940184 - it deals with the VSS
> errors.
> Deleting the registry key mentioned in this KB article and restrting the
> client did the trick for us.
> Regards,
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
> Sent: 25 November 2008 19:50
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM systemstate backups or NTBACKUP
>
> We use it on hundreds of servers with no problems.  We have seen
> problems caused by the infamous DRM registry key and VSS but most
> problems have been fixed with newer clients and Windoz patches.
>
> On our AD servers, we are using NTBACKUP because M$ says that is the
> *ONLY* acceptible/sanctioned backup/restore utility but still backup the
> rest of the system with TSM.
>
>
>
>
> Tim Brown <tbrown AT CENHUD DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 11/25/2008 02:29 PM
> Please respond to
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
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> To
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc
>
> Subject
> [ADSM-L] TSM systemstate backups or NTBACKUP
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Is anyone using the Windows NTBACKUP to backup Windows servers
> SYSTEMSTATE instead of relying on using TSM to backup the system state.
>
> I am always running into issues with some servers not able to get a
> successfull SYSTEMSTATE backup via TSM
>
> Latest clients have been Windows 2003 servers at 5.5.0 level
>
> If someone is how are you scheduling the NTBACKUP ?
>
> DSMSCHED.LOG
>
> Incremental backup of volume 'SYSTEMSTATE'
> 11/23/2008 09:02:11 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
> components could not be queried.
>
> 11/23/2008 09:02:11 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
> components could not be queried.
>
> DSMERROR.LOG
>
> 11/24/2008 13:47:07 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
>   TSM function name : VssRequestor::queryWriters
>   TSM function      : GetComponentInfo() returned E_OUTOFMEMORY
>   TSM return code   : 4344
>   TSM file          : vssreq.cpp (5791)
> 11/24/2008 13:47:08 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered.
>   TSM function name : vssQueryComponents
>   TSM function      : queryWriters() returned '4344'
>   TSM return code   : 4344
>   TSM file          : vssback.cpp (797)
> 11/24/2008 13:47:09 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
> components could not be queried.
>
> 11/24/2008 13:47:09 ANS1948E The Microsoft volume shadow copy system
> components could not be queried.
>
> Tim Brown
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> Central Hudson Gas & Electric
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