Re: Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS

2014-07-30 Thread Karel Bos
Hi, VSS is mandatory for system state backups in forced by M$. You might look into excluding system state from TSM backups and do native windows backup via precmd of the system state to a flat file. From what I have heard windows native backup still handles the backup in a different way the

Re: Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS

2014-07-30 Thread Prather, Wanda
[mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Karel Bos Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS Hi, VSS is mandatory for system state backups in forced by M$. You might look into excluding system state

Re: Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Raibeck
: Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Yup. I haven't had this problem with Win2K8 yet, but had it all the time on Win2K3. And we do exactly as Karel said, use a presched .cmd file to dump the system state to a flat file, then add

Backing up systemstate with something besides VSS

2014-07-29 Thread Zoltan Forray
I know this sounds strange, but let me get into the details. We have the W2K8R2 box that seems to lose / stop most of the VSS writers, about once a month and manually starting them doesn't work (requires reboot) for the TSM backups. Starts producing the errors: ANS1948E The Microsoft volume