A note of caution.

Windows has a way of disconnecting your mapped drives when they haven't been
accessed for a bit.  Most programs will force a reconnect, but I've seen on
some systems where the TSM backup expired all the files in an entire
filesystem it couldn't access.  You may want to run an automated check to be
sure the filesystem is available before starting an incremental.  If it
drops during a backup, I think you are OK and the process will error out
without expiring any files.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Thorneycroft, Doug
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 3:03 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] backing up mapped drives

The unc should work, and it does show up with the local drives.
You might need to tweak the permissions on the account that the scheduler is
running under. A local account probably won't have access across the network

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:56 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: backing up mapped drives


I was wondering if someone who might be backing up mapped drives on a
particular server could weigh in on this please. We have a server, and I
have not seen the setup because I have no access at this point, that I am
told has mapped drives from a netapp. They want this drive backed up with
TSM and I am looking to find the proper way to do this. Are either of these
acceptable and if so when looking to restore data do these drives show up in
the 'local' tree?



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Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
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