You can still use command line. You just need to install the BA Client from
the Spectrum Protect for VE package. Choose "Advanced Installation"
and then choose "Install the data mover feature only".

Art Roy
IBM Systems Storage Software Advanced Technology (SWAT)
Unleash IBM (SWAT Request)
586.201.4871 (mobile)
ajroy AT us.ibm DOT com





From:   "Schaub, Steve" <Steve_Schaub AT BCBST DOT COM>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:   03/15/2017 02:16 PM
Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive
            discontinued in Virtual Environment??
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



Does this apply to command line VE restores as well?  At DR, we typically
just install a BA client and we have a script to perform mass VE restores
from within it.  Does this mean it would require the full VE install?
-steve

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Del Hoobler
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:33 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued
in Virtual Environment??

What this means is that you can no longer just install the Backup/Archive
client and run these commands. You have to have the license for Spectrum
Protect for VE in order to execute VM backup and restore operations.


Del

----------------------------------------------------


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/14/2017
06:03:10 PM:

> From: Hans Christian Riksheim <bullhcr AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date: 03/14/2017 06:05 PM
> Subject: Re: 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in
> Virtual Environment??
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> Del,
>
> we have upgraded to 8.1 and run our vm backups exactly like before.
> What
do
> you mean that "dsmc backup vm" is legacy? Will this method of doing VM
> backups be discontinued in future versions of the product?
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans Chr.
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Del Hoobler <hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com> 
> wrote:
>
> > This is not referring to running the BA Client in guest.
> >
> > This is referring to the legacy commands like:
> >    DSMC BACKUP VM
> >    DSMC RESTORE VM
> >    DSMC QUERY VM
> >
> >
> > Del
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/14/2017
> > 03:19:48 PM:
> >
> > > From: "Alford, Ben" <balford AT UTK DOT EDU>
> > > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > > Date: 03/14/2017 03:20 PM
> > > Subject: 8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in
> > > Virtual Environment??
> > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> > >
> > > The IBM site: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/
> > > client/r_new_for_version.html<http://www.ibm.com/support/
> > > knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/client/r_new_for_version.html>  says:
> > > Discontinued functions
> > > The following functions are discontinued in this release:
> > > Virtual machine operations on the backup-archive client Virtual
> > > machine operations are available only if you are using the client
> > > as a data mover for the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual
> > > Environments products (Data Protection for VMware or Data
> > > Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V).
> > > You can no longer run virtual machine operations without
> > > installing IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments.
> > > What does "Virtual machine operations" mean?    Do TSM's basic
> > > backup/archive functions stop if the 8.1 client is running as a VM
> > > guest and Spectrum Protect for VE is not installed???
> > > Ben Alford
> > > IT Manager, Office of Information Technology The University of
> > > Tennessee
> > >
> >
>

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