Hello Marcel and Bas

Thank you for the information....

I  will try with the option VMFOLDER=xxxx,yyyy 

It's a possibility to do it in command line for testing (before adding it at 
dsm.opt)

BACKUP VM ..................................

 I did not find the correct syntax ?

T.I.A Regards

Robert


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Marcel Anthonijsz
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 3:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup VE via Resource Pool

Hi Robert,

There is no option (yet) to directly backup a VMware Resource Pool. If you have 
a look at the dsmc backup command, there are following options for VMware 
backup:
Ref:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/client/r_cmd_bkupvm.html
and :
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/client/r_opt_domainvmfull.html

The domain level parameters are:
    all-vm
    all-windows
    vmhost
    vmfolder
    vmhostcluster
    vmdatastore

No vmresourcepool option here :-(. You could create an RFE for that.

I manage a lot of backups using the VMFOLDER option, i.e. move a VM into a 
dedicated VMware folder and it gets backupped by that datamover.
A workaround that we have discussed in last Dutch Spectrum Protect User group 
is to create a script to list the VMs and create a backup script from that list.
This requires scheduled (manual or automated) regeneration of the scripts, so I 
opted for the VMFOLDER option as this is easy manageable, also by the VMware 
administrators. We have found out that nested VMfolders also work, so you can 
have multiple folders with the same name in your folder structure, the TDP for 
VE picks up all those VMs in the folders.




2016-08-10 3:40 GMT+02:00 Robert Ouzen <rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il>:

> Hello to all
>
> We decided to back up our VMware environment with TSM VE 7.1.6 via
> Resource Pool   !
>
> Did you have example what line I need to add in  adequate dsm.opt  to 
> configure Resource Pool backup???
>
> T.I.A .Best Regards
>
> Robert
>



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