Hi all, One more from me. This is a cautionary tale :)
I've set up image backups on a Windows node (win2k TSM 5.3.0.0), and can run them fine from the gui. The node is a large-ish file server (500GB) and I want to run image backups of the data volume fortnightly to improve recovery times - ie, so I can run an image +incremental restore if the whole thing goes toes-up. When I ran the image backup via schedule I was getting ANS1113E the snapshot cache location is not valid. So, I tested this from the command line and sure enough got the same error using backup image d: This was perplexing so I ran backup image d: -snapshotlocation="d:\tsmlvsacache" and this worked - or at least began to before I cancelled it. But my dsm.opt contained Include.Image "D:" IMAGEDATA IMAGETYPE=SNAPSHOT blah blah SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION="D:\tsmlvsacache" which had been generated from the GUI preferences editor, so I shouldn't have needed this. Finally the penny dropped .... backup image D: (note the capital drive letter) works like a charm. Is it a bug - maybe- what do you think? Steven Harris AIX and TSM Administrator
