Hello Mike,

I guess you're using the old VCB backup modes (with filelevel option).  

VCB allows image level (fullvm) for any guest operating system, but file-level 
is limited to Windows guest operating system.

See this datasheet from VMware :
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/consolidated_backup_datasheet.pdf

So, you won't be able to perform off-host file-level backup of your Linux 
guests. 

The only available solutions are :
- installing a Linux B/A client, but i'ts an in guest istallation.
- installing TSM for VE that allows file-level recovery from an forever 
incremental block-level image backup.

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Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON

----- Mail original -----
De: "Michael S Ryder" <michael_s.ryder AT ROCHE DOT COM>
À: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Envoyé: Mercredi 1 Juillet 2015 05:13:03
Objet: [ADSM-L] TSM, Linux and VMs

Folks:

Is it possible to perform off-host, file-level incremental backups of Linux
VMs from a Linux "proxy" or "data mover?"

I am using TSM 7.1.1 Server, and have a mix of Windows and Linux VMs
(VMware, vSphere 5.5 environment).

I have no trouble using my Windows "data mover" with the BA client to
perform file-level backups of Windows VMs, but I am thus far unable to use
my Linux "data mover" host with BA client to perform file-level backups of
Linux VMs.

Is this not supported?  If not... what is the best way to perform off-host,
file level incremental backups of Linux VMs?

Best regards,

Mike, x7942
RMD IT Client Services