Dear Listers,
Working on app aware backup for TDP for VMWARE and TDP for mail.
When setting access I get an ANS0331e
The exchange runs in circular logging mode.
Do I need to change this into roll forward and make a backup via TDP first?

tsm> q vm BIRD-mail01  -detail
Query Virtual Machine for Full VM backup

#      Backup Date       Mgmt Class  Size         Type   A/I Virtual Machine
---  -------------------  ----------  -----------  ------ --- ---------------
  1  05/20/2015 07:14:49  VMDATA          1.21 TB  IFINCR  A  BIRD-MAIL01
        Size of this incremental backup: 18.65 GB
        Number of incremental backups since last full: 383
        Amount of extra data: 1
        TSM object fragmentation: 17
        Backup is represented by: 131357 TSM objects
        Application protection type: TSM VSS
        Application(s) protected: MS Exchange 2010
        Disk[1]Label:   Hard Disk 1
        Disk[1]Name:    [LUN3_SAS] BIRD-mail01/BIRD-mail01.vmdk
        Disk[1]Status:  Protected
        Disk[2]Label:   Hard Disk 2
        Disk[2]Name:    [LUN3_SAS] BIRD-mail01/BIRD-mail01_1.vmdk
        Disk[2]Status:  Protected
        Disk[3]Label:   Hard Disk 3
        Disk[3]Name:    [LUN3_SAS] BIRD-mail01/BIRD-mail01_2.vmdk
        The average overhead of extra data: 1
        The average TSM objects fragmentation: 17
        The average number of TSM objects per backup: 131357
tsm> set access backup -type=VM BIRD-mail01 BIRD-mail01_exchange
ANS0331E No files have been previously backed up for this filename/filespace.tsm
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Best Regards,
Koen





Koen A. Willems