I perform weekly Image backups and nightly incrementals of a file server.
During a recent restore test, the Image backup was said to be corrupt, and I
had to perform a file restore of the system instead. (It wasn't really corrupt,
we just wanted to test the scenario.) It seemed the file level
I would use that same BartPE disk to determine if you can read the newly
restored disk after the restore. If so, I would attempt to fix the boot sector
as you mentioned below by booting a Windows Server 2008 R2 CD and running
through the various options to fix the boot sector.
Good luck.
If
Can you RAR or tar/gzip the entire directory and then backup that one file? Is
adding more RAM to the box an option?
Some file server optimizations ( not tested by me ):
http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp/archive/2009/04/24/windows-file-server-performance-optimization.aspx
Ray
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If you are using compression (hardware or other), turn it off for this backup
set.
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David
Longo
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up
Tim, when it comes to VCB backups so long as your VCB Proxy can see the disk
the VM is on you can perform a VCB backup of it. If not, you can't.
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Steven, if you are running in a Windows Server 2003 ( or greater ) functional
level Windows Domain you might consider setting up several smaller file servers
and implementing DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication too.
Ray
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If you are running Active Directory (a domain controller) in a VM and you want
to backup AD you have two options:
1. System state
2. Turn off the VM and backup the entire set of VMDK files etc that
comprise that VM.
Neither Microsoft nor VMware support snapshot backups (VCBs) of a
Lisa, my file server used to be clustered, have compressed drives, and used TSM
baclient 5.5 for incremental and image backups and restores without issue. We
have since virtualized it and it is no longer clustered. The drives are still
compressed and we are still using TSM baclient 5.5 for both
Tim, do you mean you are performing VCB backups of guest machines and you want
to restore a specific file from one of those backups? If so, you can mount the
VMDK files once you restore them to your VCB proxy computer. I don't have the
link, but you can search VMware's web site on VCB backup
no client is
installed? (I hope this doesn't confuse you)
I may be the one who is confused I picture the vm/vcb files being separate
from the normal TSM Client Backup files.
thanks again!
On 8/4/2010 3:12 PM, Storer, Raymond wrote:
Tim, do you mean you are performing VCB backups of guest
will this work with restoring them even though no
client is installed? (I hope this doesn't confuse you)
I may be the one who is confused I picture the vm/vcb files being separate
from the normal TSM Client Backup files.
thanks again!
On 8/4/2010 3:12 PM, Storer, Raymond wrote:
Tim, do
Eric, we use TDP for Exchange 5.5.x on our Exchange 2007 servers. We have about
450GB spread over 10 databases that we perform a full backup on every night.
During the day, we perform a standard TSM 5.5.x client backup of our logs every
hour. The nightly fulls take about seven hours. My
Can you mount the database? If so, perhaps you could perform some queries on
the database to confirm the mailbox is there. If it is there, see if you can
convince Exchange to move/restore it to another database. I have not tried to
restore an email account to a child domain. When backed up,
If you can choose to have the client run the task instead of having the CAD run
it, I'd setup a task on the client to run and wake-up the machine to run it
if it is not running. If that is not an option, you might try some
wake-on-lan option.
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist
I see your exclude statements below. I do not see any include statements.
Do you include the directories for your SQL data? If you perform a backup
command manually does it work as expected?
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
David,
Please give these two links a read. I believe you'll find them very instructive.
Cmd line
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997694(EXCHG.80).aspx
Gui
http://www.petri.co.il/using_rsg_in_exchange_2007.htm
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Danny, you do not perform VMware snapshots of the drives that contain your
Exchange databases do you? If so, I'd turn VMware snapshots off for those
drives if at all possible. I would perform a standard VMware restore of your
Exchange VMs. Then, I'd follow Microsoft's and Tivoli's
David, if you are not running these machines in a VM I'd recommend using
Microsoft's built-in Backup and Recovery tools for Windows Server 2008. You can
then use TSM to copy the resultant files to tape if you so desire.
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
If you are using client-side scripts you can set an environment variable to
tell it which dsm.opt file to use. On Windows that would like similar to this:
SET DSM_CONFIG=C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSMv5.5.0.6\baclient\dsm-friday.opt
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Danny, are you running the backups on a client-side schedule or a TSM server
prompted schedule? If you are using a client side script, simply redirect the
output from dsmc to a text file by using full_path_and_file_name at the
end of the dsmc command line in the client side script.
Ray
I currently perform image backups of a Windows basic disk that is 500GB in
size (and about 25GB free). Would an image restore to a dynamic disk work?
Or, would you recommend that I just convert the basic disk to dynamic? Does
TSM image backup and restore work well with dynamic disks? If anyone
Wanda, is this a 32 or 64 bit system? An NTFS file system will support about 4
Billion files on a single volume
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781134(WS.10).aspx . If you are
having performance issues with this and you can switch it to a 64bit platform
and add loads of RAM, I
...
Thanks for the reply and the reference; I'll read that.
It's a 32 bit system.
Do you think adding RAM will help with the issues navigating the file tree?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Storer, Raymond
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011
with the issues navigating the file
tree?
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
Of Storer, Raymond
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows servers with a kazillion files and
Win2K8
I don't know TSM specifics, but here are a couple of Microsoft articles on the
subject:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776211(WS.10).aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969382
If nothing else, you can make TSM work around these guidelines. I'm pretty
certain I saw some info in
Yudi, are you using TDP for VMware? What version of the TSM Client are you
using?
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Yudi
Darmadi
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM VMWare -
Wanda, what happens if you perform a Repair install of the server software
after the client upgrade? Is that even an option? ( Sorry, I don't run TSM
server on Windows. )
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Pete, did you see the IBM provided (and not supported!) PowerShell script for
this?
See this link
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21433016
I have not personally used it as I'm not ( yet ) running 2010. I did give it
the once over, and it looked pretty good. You'd run it once
According to the below link, there may be issues restoring a VM to a cluster
configured differently from my production cluster (e.g., a DR site).
Has anyone else experienced this?
If it is an outstanding issue, does anyone know of a workaround or a fix from
IBM?
Keith, I added a column to my vCenter for the TSM Node name, assigned a generic
TSM Node name to each vm (I use 4 nodes), and then used PowerCli to write out
four batch files to get my hosts backed up. In this way, it doesn't matter
which host the vm lives on (or moves to), the TSM Node name
Yes, diskpart should do the trick.
Diskpart /s script.txt
[script.txt]
RESCAN
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK #
ONLINE
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL=SOME LABEL QUICK
ASSIGN LETTER=A-Z
EXIT
The above is merely an example. I have not tried it. You will want to try the
disk add manually to
Below is an error in our TSM 5.5 server logs during a TDP for VE 6.2 full vm
backup. I changed the node name on the client and the backup completed without
error.
What else would you recommend I do to resolve this error or prevent it from
happening again?
Thanks
Ray
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Tim,
If you have applied Domain security groups to files and folders you must put
the server in the Domain for those DACLs to resolve. If you've applied user
created local security groups to the files and folders you will likely need to
perform a system state restore to get them back (built-in
Andy,
What would you have this daily backup job do exactly? e.g. backup of specific
drives or files, image backups, reporting requirements?
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
Sent: Tuesday,
Bill, did you ever get this working? If not, did you try both the GUI and
command line?
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill
Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 4:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]
I would appreciate as many votes and watches as possible in order to get this
feature added. Thanks for your consideration.
ID:34722
Headline: Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)
Submitted on: 10 May 2013, 02:27 PM Eastern
Steve, we perform weekly full backups and nightly incremental backups to tape
(LTO5). We are using version 6.4 of the baclient and TSM for VE, which allows
incremental forever--we do not use that option. The highest daily change I see
during the nightly incremental backups is about 25%. The
Robert, I'm not familiar with the options you mention below. However, assuming
you are using TDP for SQL (or something else to backup the SQL DB and LOG
data), I'd recommend specific INCLUDE and/or EXCLUDE statements to effectively
exclude the disks that have the DATA and LOGS on them. Then,
Steve, according to the link below parallel backups are supported; however, you
should allow a minimum of ten minutes between backups.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/topic/com.ibm.itsm.mail.exc.doc/c_dpfcm_bup_vssplan_exc.html
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
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Bill, are you running the data mover inside a VM or on standalone hardware?
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill
Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Assuming you are using client side schedules: Please confirm your scheduled job
configuration. Specifically, check the General tab under Security options
to confirm the job is configured to Run whether user is logged on or not.
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457
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Steve, do you have SP3 installed in your Exchange 2010 environment? If not, you
might try that too as the TDP for Exchange 6.4.1 client contained a bug fix for
restoring individual mailboxes for the SP3 update of Exchange 2010.
Ray
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457
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Adrian, I don't know if any client-side encryption options for the standard TSM
client work when doing Hyper-V backups or not. If they do, you can find
information about them on page 359 of the TSM for Windows Backup Archive Client
6.4 user's guide
Zoltan, I prefer to use the built-in Windows Backup for System State backups
and then let TSM backup the files to tape during the normal file system
backups. In this way, I know I have a Microsoft supported recovery mechanism if
I need it.
Nowadays, with the advent of virtualization, there are
Wanda, next time you see this check to see if Exchange is running an integrity
check (eseutil in process list) on the database. I know you told it not to do
it in your command line; but, perhaps, Exchange decides it should run it
despite the backup client's instruction not to. If you do not see
Geoff, I'm not completely clear what is going on with your Exchange backup.
However, I would strongly recommend you work with your Exchange admins and the
TDP for Exchange client install and configuration document to confirm your
backup nodes are configured correctly. You must use a proxy node
Matthew, it looks like this may be a scheduling hiccup between TDP and VSS. The
error indicates VSS is not done with what it was doing and TDP asked it to do
another VSS operation. Interestingly enough, there is a hotfix available for
the very VSS error you get on Server 2012 and VM backups.
I submitted an RFE related to this in May of 2013. You can see it here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfeCR_ID=34722
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del
Hoobler
If your data movers are using hotadd, please check them for attached disks from
those deleted VMs.
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
574.295.3457
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of ??
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:56 AM
To:
Mike, I finally found the document referencing TSM/VE vCenter manual install
and remove commands. I hope you find it useful.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21609665
Ray
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ryder,
Robert, you might use the -vm parameter to exclude certain VMs in your DSM.OPT
file.
DOMAIN.VMFULL VMHOSTCLUSTER=CLUSTER_NAME;-VM=VM_TO_EXCLUDE1,VM_TO_EXCLUDE2
Also, in your DSM.OPT file you can add INCLUDE.VMDISK options to specifically
target VM disks you want (which excludes the other disks
I do not know of a way for TDP for VE to send you a report of this kind.
However, you could use PowerShell to generate a list of newly created VMs and
compare that to the list of VMs that TDP for VE backed up.
Ray Storer
NIBCO INC.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
Stefan, I do not use the application level backup included with TSM for VE. If
we can judge its use by the number of responses to this thread, it doesn't
appear many others use it either. I would strongly recommend you install it
into a test environment for a month and see how both backups
I like using the built-in tools to perform system state backups to a remote
location and then using the TSM client to backup those files to the TSM server.
For me, it meets two goals:
No third-party software on the domain controller
Guaranteed support from Microsoft (not "best effort") since I
Backup and recovery of a Domain Controller, VM or physical server, works pretty
much the same. The only real difference comes in restoring the VM or
installing the OS from media. Since Windows Server 2012 R2 installs so
quickly, I prefer to simply install from media. Purely preference
Steven,
Sorry, I cannot help you with the vmcli commands. However, you can easily use
PowerShell or another scripting language to get vCenter to provide you a list
of VMs and then sort, slice, dice, filter, and store them. You could easily
"roll your own" VM tagging structure for backups
Zoltan, since these are Windows file servers, could Volume Shadow Copies work
for you and your users? You'd likely need more disk to store the periodic
volume snapshots. And, you'll have to train users how to use the "Previous
Versions" feature in the Windows File Explorer. Then, you only
Tom,
I don't have a large on-premises Exchange environment. I perform full backups
daily and log backups hourly. Things you could test to improve speed:
- test RESOURCEUTILIZATION option in dsm.opt to at least 5 (10 is max, I think)
to see how it performs in your environment and adjust up or
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