Hi Chip:

I'm going to mess around with that script that you sent me on our proxy server 
and see what results I get.

Here's a question for you:  Say the script identifies a bunch of log files etc. 
that we would like to exclude from the backup.  We always modify dsm.opt with 
includes/excludes when the agent resides on the client.  DSM.OPT doesn't seem 
to be of much use with a VCB backup (I don't believe).  Have you come across an 
easy way to tell the incremental VCB backup to exclude certain 
files/directories from being backed up?

Thanks for any further suggestions.

Danny Schmanny

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From: "Charles.Bell AT BHSALA DOT com" <Charles.Bell AT BHSALA DOT com>
To: "danny.schmanny AT lgca DOT org" <danny.schmanny AT lgca DOT org>, "ADSM-L 
AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] VCB Incrementals: Is there a log of what is backed up?

I use scripts (.cmd files) local to the VCB proxy server that TSM schedules
on the TSM server call on. An example:

cd c:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient
dsmc backup vm -vmlist=VCBclient1,VCBclient2 -vmbackuptype=file > tsmfile.txt

Using the '> tsmfile.txt' allows me to view info about the backup.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Danny Schmanny
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 10:16 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] VCB Incrementals: Is there a log of what is backed up?

Greetings All:

When a backup TSM agent is loaded on a backup client, we can see the results
of an incremental backup in a log file that is stored on the client (i.e.
dsmsched.log).

When we run a VCB incremental from the proxy server, there doesn't appear to
be any log on the client of the files backed up (i.e. no dsmsched.log and no
other pertinent log file that I can see).  There also does not appear to be
any log on the proxy server of the VCB incremental files being backed on the
clients.

How can we determine what is being backed up when VCB incrementals are run
from the proxy server? We would like to determine if we need to exclude
certain files/directories from being backed up.  Do we have to resort to
using Windows Explorer on the VM to see what is there?  My supervisor does
not like that as an answer and is thinking we are possibly missing a simpler
solution.

Any ideas on what we have possibly overlooked would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Danny Schmanny

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Thanks.

Danny Schmanny