Hello Mike, I guess you're using the old VCB backup modes (with filelevel option).
VCB allows image level (fullvm) for any guest operating system, but file-level is limited to Windows guest operating system. See this datasheet from VMware : http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/consolidated_backup_datasheet.pdf So, you won't be able to perform off-host file-level backup of your Linux guests. The only available solutions are : - installing a Linux B/A client, but i'ts an in guest istallation. - installing TSM for VE that allows file-level recovery from an forever incremental block-level image backup. -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON ----- Mail original ----- De: "Michael S Ryder" <michael_s.ry...@roche.com> À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Mercredi 1 Juillet 2015 05:13:03 Objet: [ADSM-L] TSM, Linux and VMs Folks: Is it possible to perform off-host, file-level incremental backups of Linux VMs from a Linux "proxy" or "data mover?" I am using TSM 7.1.1 Server, and have a mix of Windows and Linux VMs (VMware, vSphere 5.5 environment). I have no trouble using my Windows "data mover" with the BA client to perform file-level backups of Windows VMs, but I am thus far unable to use my Linux "data mover" host with BA client to perform file-level backups of Linux VMs. Is this not supported? If not... what is the best way to perform off-host, file level incremental backups of Linux VMs? Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Services
