Thanks for the suggestion but server owner says that is not the case.
Automount is enabled.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Sven Seefeld <
sven.seefeld AT rrz.uni-hamburg DOT de> wrote:

> Hi Zoltan,
>
>  One of my Windows admins has come to me with this problem on a new Windows
>> 2012 server.  Yes they are running the latest client,
>>
>> The symptoms seem to be this problem:
>>
>> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21502685
>>
>> They have run through all of the processes in this document and everything
>> is working as it should (except the backup).
>>
>> The statement "TSM uses VSS to back up system state, but VSS runs into
>> errors if the 100 MB System Reserved Partition is offline."
>>
>> brings up the question about the 100MB value since this partition on this
>> machine, while it is online, is 99MB.
>>
>> Does this matter and could it be the cause of these problems?
>>
> no, the "automount disable" is the root cause.
> If you're not doing any VMware Backups, turn it back on.
> We have the same issue on the VMware TDP Datamovers, so I wrote a little
> script to automatically enable / "online voume" the 100MB partition every
> time windows boots (scheduled task). Not perfect, but working.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>   Sven
>



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