Tim,

I have seen issues with system state backups with certain versions of the
BAClient. You might want to check the version you use, using a newer
version of the BA client solved our issue, and we did not have to resort to
extra backups.

Cheers,
Rick

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Tim Brown <tbrown AT cenhud DOT com> wrote:

> We actually do both a TSM system state and a Windows ntbackup for 2003
> servers and wbadmin for 2008 to have 2 versions. We experienced an
> issue awhile ago where the TSM system state restore failed but the
> Ntbackup worked.
>
> Just insurance!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Rick Harderwijk
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 July, 2012 8:59 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Do you perform Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups?
>
> Hi,
>
> We always make systemstate backups, as we need the systemstate backups to
> do be able to do a full restore of a machine. System states have become
> very large with Windows Server 2008 R2, though can probably be tweaked with
> later versions of TSM clients (6.x.x), which we don't use.
>
> We have restored system states once in a while when we lost a VM and test
> all system state restores in our annual DR training.
>
> We have not yet seen any issues with the system state backups yet with the
> latest Windows Updates installed on our servers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rick
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Zoltan Forray <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:
>
> > We are constantly seeing problems with Windows VSS and systemstate
> > backups.  The recent "black Tuesday" updates has causes numerous Windows
> > servers to start having backup problem where they previously worked just
> > fine.
> >
> > In most cases they require the VSS hotfixes/fixpacks, etc.  The quickest
> > fix is to simply stop systemstate backups since VSS patches usually
> require
> > reboots.
> >
> > I bought up the issue of "have we ever restored the systemstate or any
> > objects within" and the response was "No, Never".
> >
> > So I am wondering, how many folks here who backup Windows servers,
> include
> > SYSTEMSTATE backups and why?
> >
> > --
> > *Zoltan Forray*
> > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> > Virginia Commonwealth University
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