I think Q SYSTEMOBJECT didn't exist until the 4.2.0 client. (And personally I don't trust the systemobject backup of the 4.1 client. There were some bugs. I STRONGLY recommend 4.2.0, or 4.2.1.20).
-----Original Message----- From: Julie Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Hi Jim, I asked our Win2K guy to do the Q SYSTEMOBJECT at the b/a client command line, and it responded this way: tsm> q systemobject ANS1138E The 'QUERY' command must be followed by a subcommand We are running the 4.1.1 client on that machine. By default, it only appears to backup these system objects: Event Log Registry RSM He was able to manually backup these system objects, though: Active Directory COM+DB System Files System Volume I could have him do the SHOW command, but I was wondering what we were doing wrong with the Q systemobject... Thanks, Julie ----- Forwarded by Julie Phinney/Green Bay/Humana on 05/17/2002 05:06 PM ----- Jim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU> 05/17/2002 05:02 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Julie, To add to Tim's comments. The TSM B/A client processes all system objects which are active on the machine; there are now a total of eleven of these system objects (added the WMI db support in TSM 5.1.0) of which only a subset will be valid on a given machine. This subset depends both on the flavor of Windows 2000 installed (e.g., Pro vs. Server vs. Adv. Server ...) and which Windows components are installed (e.g., Active Directory is available with the W2k server edition but only active if it is installed). You can expand the System Object container in the Windows B/A GUI to see which system objects are active. Also, you can issue the command SHOW SYSTEMOBJECT (not documented) and see which objects are active: stat rc system object ---- --- ------------- OK 0000 COM+ Database n/a 4312 Certificate Server Database OK 0000 Event Log ... OK 0000 WMI Database >From this you can see that the COM+, Event Log and WMI Database are active but Cert. Server is not .. (I only showed partial output). As Tim mentions, the QUERY SYSTEMOBJECT shows you what is actually backed-up to the TSM server. Hope this helps, Jim Smith TSM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- ... >From the Backup/Archive Command line clinet (dsmc), enter q systemobject. It should show you the last backup date of all system objects. tsm> q systemobject Size Backup Date Mgmt Class A/I File ---- ----------- ---------- --- ---- 7,750 05/17/2002 00:04:27 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\compdb 717,644 05/17/2002 00:04:28 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\EVENTLOG 140,726,199 05/17/2002 00:04:34 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\SYSFILES 21,533,875 05/17/2002 00:11:37 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\SYSVOL 94,404,688 05/17/2002 00:14:20 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\NTDS 4,318,790 05/17/2002 00:14:32 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\REGISTRY 20,883 05/17/2002 00:14:34 DEFAULT A SYSTEM OBJECT\SERVER1\RSM -----Original Message----- From: Julie Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Thanks, Tim, What's a Q systemobject? That command doesn't seem to produce anything, do I have it wrong? Thanks, Julie "Rushforth, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IPEG.MB.CA> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] DU> 05/16/2002 05:48 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Incremental backup process all of the system ojbects on our Windows 2000 Domain Controllers. I've done full restores with many client versions including 4.2.1.20 and 4.12.12. The default is to include system objects with DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL. What is your domain statement? Have you done a q systemobject from the b/a command line? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: Julie Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Hi all, I'm not familiar with Active Directory on Win2000 but I've been told by one of our Win2000 guys : There is a System Object selection list that includes the following items to backup using TSM: Active Directory, COM+ DB, Event Log, Registry, RSM, System Files, System Volume But it appears like only the following System Objects are currently being selected for backup: Event Log Registry RSM I'm wondering if by default, incremental backup does not back up all of the System Objects? Do I need to specify something in the DSM.OPT file or in a client optionset to get it to do all the system objects in Active Directory? Thanks, Julie Phinney
