Danny, are you running the backups on a client-side schedule or a TSM server 
prompted schedule? If you are using a client side script, simply redirect the 
output from dsmc to a text file by using ">> full_path_and_file_name" at the 
end of the dsmc command line in the client side script.

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Danny Schmanny
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:16 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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