Hi, what about if you export vm as .ova and archive it? On Friday, May 5, 2017, PAC Brion Arnaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Not sure either if this apar has been solved, but the web page give a > solution to the problem : "Rename the filespace back to its original name > to regain access to this data from the client.". Thus in the case of a > restore request, you would just have to rename the current filespace name > to xxx_current and rename the freezed one to the current one ... Has to be > tested though ! > > Two other means I could think of : rename the VM in ESX, and do a backup > with the new name, then name it back to original name. > > Or, a much more complicated approach : make use of another target node > name, same style than this : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/ > docview.wss?uid=swg21688752 > > Cheers. > > Arnaud > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > On Behalf Of Marco Batazzi > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 2:20 PM > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: R: freezing a final backup of a vm > > Hello, > Maybe is not still the case but renaming vm filespace is not fully > supported: > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC92869 > > Open a support ticked to be sure. > > Regards > > MB > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > Per conto di PAC Brion Arnaud > Inviato: venerdì 5 maggio 2017 13:57 > A: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Oggetto: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm > > Hi Gary, > > In this case you might make use of "rename filespace" command : just > rename the filespace corresponding to your VM, and start a fresh backup. > Doing so will allow to keep your old VM backup data freezed. > > Cheers. > > Arnaud > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > On Behalf Of Lee, Gary > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 1:27 PM > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: Re: freezing a final backup of a vm > > To Mark: > > Thanks for the link. > However, I must not have made myself clear. > We need something more akin to the backupset. > Freeze a backup while allowing further backups to take place afterward. > Are these allowed on an individual vm? > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;>] > On Behalf Of Mark Beta > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 7:12 AM > To: [email protected] <javascript:;> > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm > > Hello Gary, > take a look @ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659826. > If you have tdp for ve 7.1 or upper, the vm last backup will stay until > "expire vm" command will be executed. > > Regards. > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Lee, Gary <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I have a request to freeze a backup of a vm using tsm for ve for one > > year after its decommissioning. > > What happens here is that the vm is turned off, and converted into a > > template. > > If I do nothing, will its backups be retained as active, even though I > > don't back up templates? > > If not, how to fulfill this request? > > Tsm server 7.1.7.1. > > >
