Hi all

I have been asked to look into the backing up of virtual machines with a view 
to lowering the number of TSM client licenses we require.

Can someone point me in the right direction of documentation regarding working 
with TSM and virtual machines as I'm not even sure what's possible.

>From what I gather, there is a plugin that allows the direct backing up of the 
>ESX side of things?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you can provide.

Regards

Farren



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: 08 September 2009 16:15
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Mac Client Still being severed. Why?

One thing to do: start a backup, then use the Admin client to monitor the
client activity (use the QUERY SESSION command). Watch the run state, bytes
sent, and bytes received... how many sessions do you see, and what is the
activity pattern?

What do you see on the client side? Are there errors in the schedule or
error logs?

Also, what is the history of this problem on that client? Did it ever work
correctly? If so, when did it stop working, and what changes were made
around that timeframe?

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html


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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/08/2009
11:01:19 AM:

> [image removed]
>
> Re: Mac Client Still being severed. Why?
>
> Minns, Farren - Chichester
>
> to:
>
> ADSM-L
>
> 09/08/2009 11:02 AM
>
> Sent by:
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> Hi
>
> I have been logging onto the server as root and running an incremental
backup.
>
> It seems to run ok, checking files, backing them up if necessary
> then suddenly just says
>
> " ANR0480W Session 21409 for node CHXSERVE03
> > (Mac) terminated - connection with client severed"
>
> Regards
>
> Farren
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> Behalf Of Remco Post
> Sent: 08 September 2009 15:52
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Mac Client Still being severed. Why?
>
> On 8 sep 2009, at 16:37, Minns, Farren - Chichester wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Running TSM Server 5.5.2.0 on Solaris and having a problem with just
> > one of our Mac Clients.
> >
> > The Mac Client is running TSM Client 5.4.3.0  (the OS is version
> > 10.4.11).
> >
> > My problem is that both scheduled and manual backups fail after
> > approx an hour (running a few more tests to see if it's exactly an
> > hour) with the message ANR0480W Session 21409 for node CHXSERVE03
> > (Mac) terminated - connection with client severed.
> >
> > I had read a few things saying that perhaps I was running two
> > schedulers which I'm sure I'm not (at least, I don't think so), and
> > even if I would still be able to run a manual backup during the day
> > when schedules do not run.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
>
> do you have logfiles? when you run "dsmc i" on the mac in a terminal,
> what happens? This being a Mac, it probably has about 250.000 to more
> than 1 000 000 files just in /....
>
> > Many thanks as always.
> >
> > Farren Minns
> > John Wiley & Sons
>
> --
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,
>
> Remco Post
>
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