We don't backup everything on boxes. Traditionally we backup data only...d drives and the like. So, our include/excludes in the dsm.opt are like: exclude * include d:\...\* >From the manual, backupregistry is a default of yes. Also, it backs up the registry to another location....adsm.sys?? I thought it would have backed it up, regardless of the includes/excludes, but I believe I'm finding otherwise. We will be moving to backup entire machines for bare metal recovery (using TSM only), so this may become a moot point for us. I do have a problem ticket open just to understand if this is a bug or not, so I can share ibm/tivoli's response. ** Anyone have additional info to share on this topic? Thanks in advance.
Select statement I'm using in my testing: tsm: ADSM>select * from backups where node_name='US504S0J' and hl_name='\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\US504S0J\MACHINE\' ANR2963W This SQL query may produce a very large result table, or may require a significant amount of time to compute. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y NODE_NAME: US504S0J FILESPACE_NAME: \\us504s0j\c$ FILESPACE_ID: 1 STATE: ACTIVE_VERSION TYPE: FILE HL_NAME: \ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\US504S0J\MACHINE\ LL_NAME: SAM OBJECT_ID: 296815135 BACKUP_DATE: 2002-03-18 17:18:02.000000 DEACTIVATE_DATE: OWNER: CLASS_NAME: DEFAULT -