Thomas,

I am not sure if not having a backup of this file will prevent recovery. It
would seem that this is part of the C: drive and not a nominal part of the
system state. However, one thing I would suggest (and I am personally
starting to think of it as a 'best practice') is to use SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS
VSS so that all volumes (not just system state) are backed up via snapshot.
This will ensure that files are not skipped because if they are opened for
exclusive use by some other application.

I would also suggest periodic DR testing in order to verify that the backup
and restore procedures are working.

Best regards,

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/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2011-03-25
14:40:33:

> From: Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT JEFFERSONHOSPITAL DOT ORG>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Date: 2011-03-25 14:47
> Subject: Re:
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> We are seeing activity log messages like the following:
>
> ANE4987E (Session: 326356, Node: STMEDIA)  Error processing
> '\\stmedia\c$\Windows\System32\SMI\Store\Machine\SCHEMA.DAT.LOG1':
> the object is in use by another process
>
> for a number of Windows 2008 client systems with 6.2.1.0 client
> code. Is this going to compromise our ability to recover these
> systems?