Hello Ronald

Make sense ….  But still

I made today a little test

1.    Run a backup image   F:  (Full)   (On it I have there a file test.txt 
with content: “First full backup Image”)

2.  Edit this file test.txt and overwrite with “Incremental backup image”

3.: run a backup image F: -mode=incremental

See  below the output (seems good)

tsm> backup image f: -mode=incremental

Total number of objects inspected:           16
Total number of objects backed up:            1
Total number of objects updated:              0
Total number of objects rebound:              0
Total number of objects deleted:              0
Total number of objects expired:              0
Total number of objects failed:               0
Total number of objects encrypted:            0
Total number of objects grew:                 0
Total number of retries:                      0
Total number of bytes inspected:          41.51 KB
Total number of bytes transferred:          240  B
Data transfer time:                        0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:                0.00 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:              0.03 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:                        0%
Total data reduction ratio:               99.44%
Elapsed processing time:               00:00:07

4.  did an:   restore image F: E:\DiskF.iso –imagetofile  -incremental 
–deletefiles

5.But on the file DiskF.iso I see on the test.txt file the content of: “First 
full backup Image”  and not  “Incremental backup image”

I know I missed something but I can’t figure WHAT ???

Best Regards

Robert

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Ron Delaware
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup and restore question

Robert,

You cannot perform a normal incremental once you have performed a full image, 
unless you have two separate nodes, one doing image backups and one doing file 
by file backups.  You can do incremental image backups but not an file by file 
incremental.



Best Regards,