Hi Andy, That was it! As soon as I open an elevated cmd, a backup works fine. Thanks again for your help!
Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: donderdag 18 juli 2019 12:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives Hi Eric, It seems to work for me. Example shown below. In the mean time, is it possible that Windows UAC could be involved? Try opening a Windows OS prompt with the "Run as Administrator" option, then try running a sequence of commands like I show below ---------------------------------------------------------- C:\>md BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2 C:\>echo Hello, World!> C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\testfile1.txt C:\>echo Hello, World!> C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>dir BaseDir /b /s C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1 C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2 C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\testfile1.txt C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>subst t: C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive C:\>dir T: /b /s T:\dir1 T:\dir1\dir2 T:\dir1\testfile1.txt T:\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>cd "Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient" C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc i t: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 8.5 Client date/time: 07/18/2019 06:37:56 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2019. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: W2012R2SQL2014 Session established with server BABYLON5: Windows Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 8.000 Server date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:05 Last access: 07/18/2019 06:35:18 Incremental backup of volume 't:' Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\ [Sent] Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1 [Sent] Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\dir2 [Sent] Normal File--> 15 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\dir2 \testfile2.txt [Sent] Normal File--> 15 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\testfile1.txt [Sent] Successful incremental backup of '\\w2012r2sql2014\t$' Total number of objects inspected: 5 Total number of objects backed up: 5 Total number of objects updated: 0 Total number of objects rebound: 0 Total number of objects deleted: 0 Total number of objects expired: 0 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of objects encrypted: 0 Total objects deduplicated: 0 Total number of objects grew: 0 Total number of retries: 0 Total number of bytes inspected: 30 B Total number of bytes processed: 1.18 KB Total bytes before deduplication: 0 B Total bytes after deduplication: 0 B Total number of bytes transferred: 1.33 KB Data transfer time: 0.00 sec Network data transfer rate: 0.00 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate: 0.07 KB/sec Objects compressed by: 0% Deduplication reduction: 0.00% Total data reduction ratio: 0.00% Elapsed processing time: 00:00:19 ANS1900I Return code is 0. ANS1901I Highest return code was 0. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc show domain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 8.5 Client date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:39 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2019. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: W2012R2SQL2014 Session established with server BABYLON5: Windows Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 8.000 Server date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:48 Last access: 07/18/2019 06:38:24 Domain specifications: domain keywords: not specified -domain : not specified Domains in effect: domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\c$ domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\e$ domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\t$ domain : SYSTEMSTATE domain.image : not specified domain.nas : not specified domain.snapshot : not specified ANS1900I Return code is 0. ANS1901I Highest return code was 0. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient> ---------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Andy ____________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Raibeck | IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 | stor...@us.ibm.com "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2019-07-18 05:36:36: > From: "Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM" <eric-van.l...@klm.com> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 2019-07-18 05:37 > Subject: [EXTERNAL] How to make dsmc recognize drives Sent by: "ADSM: > Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Hi guys, > > For some tests I want to create separate drives in Windows and back > them up with SP. I create these drives with the subst command (subst > D: c:\<target directory>). 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