Hi Zoltan,

        -       il your plan is recovery you need to save asr and
systemstate
        -       if your plan is file restore you do not need to save asr
and system state

But

        -       if your plan is recovery and you save vm with vcb or
vdap you can skip asr and systemstate remembering you can recover the
machine with vdap (vcb) only and then restore files you need with ba
client.



Hope this helps.
Have a nice day.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rick Harderwijk
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:59 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 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?
>
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