Tim, and for those who find this thread through their favorite search
eninge in the future,

We experience issues with 5.5.1.x and 5.5.2.x clients with system state
backups. Upgrading the client to 5.5.3.3 solved those issues.

Cheers,
Rick

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Tim Brown <tbrown AT cenhud DOT com> wrote:

> That is probably true, I don't recall the version that failed
>
>
> 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 9:37 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Do you perform Windows SYSTEMSTATE backups?
>
> 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
> > > UCC/Office of Technology Services
> > > zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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> >
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