I did a backup using the GUI and selected system state along with the C:
drive. The backup was 8 gig when it finished. 

I went back and did a C: drive only and it was only a few hundred meg.
Then I did a system state only and got the 8 gig again. 

That system state in Vista is just crazy. I need to go back and really
look at some of my servers and see just how big the system state backups
are. I'll also take a close look at a few Win XP Pro desktops that I'm
backing up and see what the numbers look like. 


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vista oddness

Don't know myself, but someone else posted a while back that the System
State on Vista is many GB.

That is consistent with what you are seeing - a scheduled backup will do
the
System State, whether things have changed or not.  And selecting the C:
drive will not do the system state.

As a test, try your backup from thh GUI again, but this time select
System
STate as well as the C: drive, see if the results change...

And please post back the results!



On 12/6/07, Tyree, David <david.tyree AT sgmc DOT org> wrote:
>
>            We are testing Vista and I'm seeing something odd. TSM
seems
> to want to do almost a full backup every time it runs automatically.
>
>            I'm running the 5.5.0 client on a VMware (6.0) Vista
> Ultimate box that is talking to a TSM server running 5.4.1 on Windows.
>
>            The backup on the Vista machine is automated using the
> DSMCAD service. The incremental backup kicks off at the correct time,
> but it ends up doing a full backup.
>
>            I've looked through the dsmsched log on the Vista machine
> and I'm seeing where it has contacted the TSM server and picked up the
> schedule name and the action. The schedule name is correct and the
> action is set to incremental. And several lines in the dsmsched log
> mention "Incremental backup of '\\is-vista-test-d\c$' finished".
>
>            The log shows everything just like what I would expect to
> say, the issue is that it ends up backing up almost 8 gigs of files
each
> time the backup runs. I've run scheduled incremental backups almost
back
> to back on the machine and it picks up 8 gigs each time. The machine
is
> just sitting there between backups; I'm not doing anything on the
> machine in between.
>
>            If I open the GUI and tag the c drive for incremental
backup
> it goes out and looks at all the files on the drive and backs up a few
> dozen files and it done. Just like I would expect it to.
>
>            If I go to the baclient folder and run "dsmc incr" from the
> command line it ends up doing what looks like a full backup.
>
>
>
>            In the last couple of hours I had a scheduled backup run
> that moved about 8 gigs worth of files. Right after that finished I
did
> a c drive backup from the GUI. It moved a few hundred megs of files.
> Right behind that I did the "dsmc incr". So far it's moved over 4 gig
of
> files and is still running.
>
>
>
>            Anybody got a idea what's going on here?
>
>
>
>
>
>            PS, Vista looks good.  Except most of our software doesn't
> run. The UAC (User Account Control) is a real piece of work. And they
> have moved everything around so you can't find what you're looking
for.
> But at least it looks good....
>
> David Tyree
> Interface Analyst
> South Georgia Medical Center
> 229.333.1155
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