Windows 2012R2 server
TSM 7.1.2.0 client
The customer has a drive with a symbolic link off to a UNC share path. When
the backup runs it backs up the drive, but does not follow the symbolic link
and backup the UNC share. Which is what we really want to accomplish. The
FOLLOWSYMBOLIC=YES is
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links
Windows 2012R2 server
TSM 7.1.2.0 client
The customer has a drive with a
You may have already looked at this, but it may be a Windows permission
problem.
If the System account is running the client, it can only backup local
drives.
You need an account that has authority to backup non-local drives/shares.
George Huebschman (George H.)
(301) 699-4013
(301) 875-1227
The share on the NAS device as well as the directory/files all have that
user as read permission. And that's the userid the service is configured
with.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
George Huebschman
Sent: Friday, August 14,
How about trying a test with an opt file targeted on just that UNC name?
Or try (maybe you already have) try mapping a drive to that share directly
rather than as a symbolic link on the drive.
George Huebschman (George H.)
From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU,
Access Denied sounds like a permission or authentication error
somewhere.
George Huebschman (George H.)
From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU,
Date: 08/14/2015 12:11 PM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links
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The TSM Scheduler service is running under an account that has permission to
the share as well as the files in the share. If I specify the share name,
all I get are security access errors on every file. Using the same userid I
can to a run-as on Notepad and access the files on the share for
Hello,
In the near future we may be replacing our Windows server CIFS shares with a
NAS appliance. In doing some reading I came across a blog post about a 3rd
party tool, MAG (Massive Attack General Storage), that will automatically
create parallel TSM backup sessions for a share. I was just
