Hello Steve, 

I did something like this some time ago. I had the Vmware admin set the 
database disks as "Independent", as this type of disk is not included in the 
VCB snapshots. 

I used a script to interface with vcbmounter but I think the BACKUP VM command 
would work as well.

Regards,

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Steve Harris
Sent: woensdag 21 juli 2010 3:58
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] partial VM images.

Hi All

I have a VMware windows VM that I do daily VCB incrementals and Monthly
VCB fulls on.  It is thin-provisioned and now the real disk usage has
expanded to the point where it exceeds the capacity of my proxy server's
landing area.

This particular VM runs SQL Server which is backed-up by dump to disk, and
thence to TSM via VCB.  There is no point in backing up the disk containing
the databases, so I'm looking to exclude those disks from the monthly image
and just backup C: and the dump disk.

I can see no way to do this.  The BACKUP VM command has no option to
specify particular volumes.  I tried -DOMAIN.IMAGE but that option was
rejected.  6.2 has DOMAIN.VMFULL but that specifies which machines to back
up not which disks.

Does anyone know how it can be done?

TSM Server is 5.5.3.0 Solaris X86_64  client is Windows 2008 and TSM
6.1.3.0, but could go to 6.2.1.x if this will solve the problem.


Thanks

Steve

Steven Harris 
TSM Admin
Paraparaumu, New Zealand