Everyone's favorite topic! I recently implemented TSM 7.1.1.0, both on the server and client ends. TDP for VE is also running. Everything seems to be working well...
except for... my excludes. On just *some *of the VMs. We backup *everything*, and I expected when we implemented 7.1.1, I could take the same DSM.OPT file and use it without too much change in the new environment. RHEL6.5 for the TSM server, and Windows 2012 for the datamover/client. To manage open-file backups, we have the following lines in the OPT file: SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS SNAPSHOTPROVIDERIMAGE VSS Well, now, on about 10% of our Windows VMs, the datamover (using one single DSM.opt for the entire job) attempts to backup C:\hiberfil.sys and pagefil.sys and fails, thus reporting that the backup job failed (when it didn't, really). So I continue to see messages like this in the schedule log: 12/03/2014 17:12:16 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\servername\c$\hiberfil.sys' failed. ... even though I've got a line like this in the dsm.opt: EXCLUDE "\\*\C$\hiberfil.sys" EXCLUDE "\\*\C$\pagefil.sys" The VMs are a mix of Windows 2003 and 2008. Snapshots complete successfully. Similar lines in the same OPT file have proven effective, I can't figure out why I can't get this to work. I did some Googling but cannot find any references... is this a bug someone else has seen? What's going on? any ideas? It's annoying to see a failure message when I can't exclude "failed" files from being backed up. Thanks in advance for any time you spend on this. Best regards, Mike Ryder, x7942 RMD IT Client Services
