Re: System State files

2014-10-01 Thread Rick Adamson
Andy, You may find this helpful. Recently during a DR test I found that certain files were unavailable for restore and I could not see where they were being excluded. They were actually being included in the system state backup because they were associate with service that was installed by the

Re: System State files

2014-10-01 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Andy, A couple of thoughts: 1. Use a SELECT statement against the BACKUPS table with ... WHERE LL_NAME='DSCMAD.EXE' 2. From the client, use dsmc query against the C: drive or the system state file space. Syntax for the latter looks like this: dsmc q ba "{\SystemState\NULL\System Stat

System State files

2014-10-01 Thread Huebner, Andy
Is there a way to list the files that are backed up as part of the system state backup? In particular we are being asked where a program is being backed up when it does not show up in the restore list or the backup list. The program is the value for the ImagePath key for a service. For example