It's not the schedule.
There are several things that can cause VE to do the whole enchilada, rather 
than only the used space.

One I specifically remember is you have to be at Hardware level 7 on the VM; 
another is a missing license file for VE. 
And there are also some VM's guests where VMware can't give/get you the correct 
CBT information to prevent doing that; I've seen that on some odd variants of 
Linux guests, but couldn't tell you why.

You can also have older VM's that don't have the CBT flag turned on.  You can 
go in the VM and turn it on, but I think the VM has to be down, and the first 
full backup should have turned it on anyway.

If you've got a clean Win2k8 guest around, try a backup of one of those as a 
test, see if you get the same results

If none of that rings a bell I'd open a PMR, they can probably identify the 
problem pretty quickly.

(And can I ask why you haven't upgraded to VE 7.1?  Much cleaner 
implementation, FWIW.) 

Wanda
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Lee, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 11:25 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve backup question

TSM for ve 6.4, tsm server 6.2.5 on RHEL 6.1 Data movers on RHEL 6.1.

Ran our first backup of a production vmware host.
We thin provision our vms.
One is provisioned at around 1 tB.  However, according to our vmware admin, it 
is using only around 238 gB of disk at this time.

When we ran the backup, It appeared to back up the entire 1 tB of something.
The schedule for the backup is below.
Is this a limitation of the product, or simply misconfiguration.
TSM I can deal with, vmware, I know little about.
Any pointers to good reference info would be appreciated.

I have looked in the TSM for ve users's guide, but don't' see anything.

Schedule follows

            Policy Domain Name: VMWARE-PROD
                 Schedule Name: HOST-ESX06-NIGHTLY
                   Description:
                        Action: Backup
                     Subaction: VM
                       Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm 
-asnodename=DC_BSU_RB -domain.vmfull="VMHOST=vmhost06.bsu.edu;-VM=SQLEMAIL01," 
-MODE=IFIncremental
                       Objects:
                      Priority: 5
               Start Date/Time: 08/25/2014 18:00:00
                      Duration: 1 Hour(s)
                Schedule Style: Enhanced
                        Period:
                   Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat
                         Month: Any
                  Day of Month: Any
                 Week of Month: Any
                    Expiration:
Last Update by (administrator): BLBROWN2
         Last Update Date/Time: 08/25/2014 14:20:20
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