Re: Assigning management class to VM backups
Stefan, Thanks for the tip on include.vm. That is apparently new in VE 7.1 and is a feature I have been needing for over a year. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Assigning management class to VM backups Have a look at include.vm vm name mc http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fr_opt_includevm.html On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: I have a bunch of VM's that need to be handled differently than most of the others being backed up. I created a mgmt. class for it and in the script file used to run the dsmc backup vm -optfile=, I specified the -VMMC=. But they did not get assigned to that class. I have different opt files for the VM backups specifying the DOMAIN.VMFULL= of the ones I want to process. I tried putting the VMMC in the opt file and still the don't get assigned correctly. Is there an INCLUDE or something I also need to specific? I have a lot of VM's that only need a once a week full backup, so I have them spread out across each day. Each day has its own opt file with the DOMAIN.VMFULL speicying the VM's for that day. I then have a .CMD file to run the DSMC BACKUP VM command with -OPTFILE= for that day of week. I just can't seem to get the VM's to be assigned to other than the default management class. I don't want to have to create a whole new policy domain and set of nodes for this. Any help is appreciated as always. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Assigning management class to VM backups
Have a look at include.vm vm name mc http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fr_opt_includevm.html On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: I have a bunch of VM's that need to be handled differently than most of the others being backed up. I created a mgmt. class for it and in the script file used to run the dsmc backup vm -optfile=, I specified the -VMMC=. But they did not get assigned to that class. I have different opt files for the VM backups specifying the DOMAIN.VMFULL= of the ones I want to process. I tried putting the VMMC in the opt file and still the don't get assigned correctly. Is there an INCLUDE or something I also need to specific? I have a lot of VM's that only need a once a week full backup, so I have them spread out across each day. Each day has its own opt file with the DOMAIN.VMFULL speicying the VM's for that day. I then have a .CMD file to run the DSMC BACKUP VM command with -OPTFILE= for that day of week. I just can't seem to get the VM's to be assigned to other than the default management class. I don't want to have to create a whole new policy domain and set of nodes for this. Any help is appreciated as always. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Assigning management class to VM backups
I have a bunch of VM's that need to be handled differently than most of the others being backed up. I created a mgmt. class for it and in the script file used to run the dsmc backup vm -optfile=, I specified the -VMMC=. But they did not get assigned to that class. I have different opt files for the VM backups specifying the DOMAIN.VMFULL= of the ones I want to process. I tried putting the VMMC in the opt file and still the don't get assigned correctly. Is there an INCLUDE or something I also need to specific? I have a lot of VM's that only need a once a week full backup, so I have them spread out across each day. Each day has its own opt file with the DOMAIN.VMFULL speicying the VM's for that day. I then have a .CMD file to run the DSMC BACKUP VM command with -OPTFILE= for that day of week. I just can't seem to get the VM's to be assigned to other than the default management class. I don't want to have to create a whole new policy domain and set of nodes for this. Any help is appreciated as always. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
