Hi Gary, TSM for VE will take block level backup so first time it will take entire 1 TB disk though your using 25% of the disk. Consecutive backups will take only changed blocks
By Sarav +65-82284384 > On 27 Aug, 2014, at 11:24 pm, "Lee, Gary" <g...@bsu.edu> wrote: > > TSM for ve 6.4, tsm server 6.2.5 on RHEL 6.1 > Data movers on RHEL 6.1. > > Ran our first backup of a production vmware host. > We thin provision our vms. > One is provisioned at around 1 tB. However, according to our vmware admin, > it is using only around 238 gB of disk at this time. > > When we ran the backup, It appeared to back up the entire 1 tB of something. > The schedule for the backup is below. > Is this a limitation of the product, or simply misconfiguration. > TSM I can deal with, vmware, I know little about. > Any pointers to good reference info would be appreciated. > > I have looked in the TSM for ve users's guide, but don't' see anything. > > Schedule follows > > Policy Domain Name: VMWARE-PROD > Schedule Name: HOST-ESX06-NIGHTLY > Description: > Action: Backup > Subaction: VM > Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm > -asnodename=DC_BSU_RB > -domain.vmfull="VMHOST=vmhost06.bsu.edu;-VM=SQLEMAIL01," -MODE=IFIncremental > Objects: > Priority: 5 > Start Date/Time: 08/25/2014 18:00:00 > Duration: 1 Hour(s) > Schedule Style: Enhanced > Period: > Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat > Month: Any > Day of Month: Any > Week of Month: Any > Expiration: > Last Update by (administrator): BLBROWN2 > Last Update Date/Time: 08/25/2014 14:20:20 > Managing profile:
