James,
This will not work.
Adaptive subfile backup is for file-level backup using the Backup-Archive
client only.
Del
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 10/08/2008
11:24:23 AM:
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Hello Everyone,
This may be a stupid question but before I set it up I would like to
get the opinions from everyone. Currently we are using the TDP_for Mail
to backup our exchange environment (Exchange 2003). My question is, if
I setup the adaptive subfile backup will it buy me anything or
Steven,
I am reading your post late, so I hope I'm not going over already
plowed ground. We have had good results using a product named
esXpress to do virtual machine image backups. For us, the advantages
are that it runs on Linux, not Windows. It is highly customizable.
The output from the backu
I'm starting to back up a lot of VMWare disk images as for some reason
the
> VMware people are unwilling to install standard BA clients on their VMs
and
> prefer to snapshot their disk to a Windows box and back it up from
there.
>
> This would be a great application for the Subfile
Hi All
I'm starting to back up a lot of VMWare disk images as for some reason the
VMware people are unwilling to install standard BA clients on their VMs and
prefer to snapshot their disk to a Windows box and back it up from there.
This would be a great application for the Subfile b
Steve,
Try as I might, I cannot locate this white paper on the IBM web site.
Netiher looking at the white papers section from the web page nor a general
keyword search yields anything for me.
Anyway...
Re: File ownership permissions: Normally the restore of a subfile backup
should yield a file
87% of the data backed up was .pst files, something that I'm
> sure is rather common where Outlook is the mail client.
>
> Now the obvious suggestion is to use Adaptive Subfile Backup for
> these and only back up the bits that have changed, but my boss
> pointed out that the Adaptive su
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Adaptive Subfile Backup and File Servers
>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> To what adaptive subfile white paper do you refer? Subfile
> backup does indeed back up the security attributes for files.
> Of course, questions such as these
-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Adaptive Subfile Backup and File Servers
Hi Steve,
To what adaptive subfile white paper do you refer? Subfile backup does
indeed back up the security attributes for files. Of course, questions
such
as these can always be resolved by testing them out for
Hi Steve,
To what adaptive subfile white paper do you refer? Subfile backup does
indeed back up the security attributes for files. Of course, questions such
as these can always be resolved by testing them out for yourself.
As to how effective subfile backup is for the types of files you mention
s the mail client.
Now the obvious suggestion is to use Adaptive Subfile Backup for
these and only back up the bits that have changed, but my boss
pointed out that the Adaptive subfile whitepaper suggests that its
use is not indicated for file servers. The reason given for this is
that ASB c
Hi TSM-ers,
I use subfile backup to save our exchange pst-files to a TSM 5.3.2.0
server (client is 5.3.2.0 on Windows 2000).
On day one TSM subfile backup was not successful because the pst-file
was locked by the user. That's fine.
On day two TSM didn't try to backup the pst-file wi
on't want to do multiple tape
mounts to get 1 FILE back!
Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me)
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tab Trepagnier
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 9:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.M
I just started to use subfile backup and here are my observations:
* it saves a lot of disk/tape space *IF* used correctly
* you should use it for big files that don't change were much - we use it for
Outlook PST files
* Don't use it for a complete file server - the 1GB li
Like lots of users, our tape libraries are overloaded and we're looking
for ways to reduce what we're keeping before spending money on new
equipment.
Server: TSM 5.1.10 on AIX 5.2
Clients: mostly TSM 5.1.7 on Windows XP/200x.
Storage: mix of disk, 3570, and LTO
Most filesystems are configured to m
Also,
from www.ibm.com/software/support searching for "SUBFILE TSM".
Adaptive subfile backup is not used for very small files (less then 1KB in size) or
for very large files (bigger then 2GB in size).
Adaptive subfile backup keeps track of its efficiency by evaluating the ratio of th
.
The NEXT backup should be smaller for a given file.
But there are limits - very large and very small files are not eligible for
subfile backup.
I don't remember the upper limit - I think it's either 1G or 2G.
And an incremental will not send ANY data if the file hasn't changed.
AND
, 2004 6:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SubFile Backup not working
Dear All,
Please correct me where I am wrong.
My configuration for adaptive subfile backup are as follows:
1- Server configuration:
Windows server running TSM 5.2.0
SUBFILE BACKUP = CLIENT
2- Client
riday, May 28, 2004 6:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SubFile Backup not working
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>
> Dear All,
> Please correct me where I am wrong.
> My configuration for adaptive subfile backup are as follows:
>
>
> 1- Server configuration:
> Windows server runni
Dear All,
Please correct me where I am wrong.
My configuration for adaptive subfile backup are as follows:
1- Server configuration:
Windows server running TSM 5.2.0
SUBFILE BACKUP = CLIENT
2- Client Configuration as in option file set from GUI:
Windows 2000 server client
the
following options to determine which files undergo compression, encryption, and
adaptive subfile backup processing:
exclude.compression
include.compression
exclude.encrypt
include.encrypt
exclude.subfile
include.subfile.
So to include only *.pst
Exclude.subfile *
Include.subfile *:\...\*.pst
&qu
That's what I thought, but does it mean that all files being backed up will
use the subfile backup? I just need one file to be backed up which is my
.pst files.
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From: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROT
backed up my 400 MB .pst file without adding an "include.subfile"
statement in my dsm.opt it went head and backed it up using subfile backup
by default and sent 9MB's to the tsmserver the 2nd time around.
When would I use the include.subfile option? When I have subfilebackup=no?
Re
at the include exclude list is read from the bottom up. So
> based on what you typed the include for subfile backup would not happen.
> The order should be as follows:
>
> Domain D:
> SubFileBackup Yes
> Exclude *
> Include d:\MyFolder\...\*
> exclude.subfile d:\MyFolder\...\*
>
Does it hold true that once you turned subfilebackup=yes in your dsm.opt all
backups from then on will use subfile? It seems to be the case because when
I backed up my 400 MB .pst file without adding an "include.subfile"
statement in my dsm.opt it went head and backed it up using subf
On Friday 30 April 2004 04:29, TSM_User wrote:
> Remember that the include exclude list is read from the bottom up. So
> based on what you typed the include for subfile backup would not happen.
> The order should be as follows:
>
> Domain D:
> SubFileBackup Yes
> Exclude *
Remember that the include exclude list is read from the bottom up. So based on what
you typed the include for subfile backup would not happen. The order should be as
follows:
Domain D:
SubFileBackup Yes
Exclude *
Include d:\MyFolder\...\*
exclude.subfile d:\MyFolder\...\*
Include.subfile d
Hi,
I cannot remember where, but I think I read somewhere, that enabling subfilebackup on
the client would cause the client to default use subfile backup for all
selected/included folders... If that is the case, I guess the dsm.opt should look like:
Domain D:
SubFileBackup Yes
Exclude
The following might also be interesting.
ProblemWhen using adaptive subfile backup, at what percentage change in comparison to
the base file does the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive client resend the
entire base file instead of continuing to create delta files? SolutionAdaptive
subdirectories on
the D: drive, nothing else
- backup any files ending in .msx using subfile
- backup any OTHER files not using subfile
Remember that
1) You must also turn on SUBFILE on the server side (SET SUBFILE CLIENT)
2) The FIRST backup you do this way will still push all the data, since your
Hi,
I have a question about the client dsm.opt file...
If I want to make backup of a directory-structure (all files) in a "normal" manner, I
just use the INCLUDE statement. But what is I want all files backup up using
incremental - but files with the extension .MSX in that folder structure s
Not available for Netware
John Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/01/2003 11:45:59 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject: Subfile backup on Netware
Question:
Is the subfile backup feature available with the N
Question:
Is the subfile backup feature available with the Netware clients. I know it is used on
the Win2k platforms, but have not seen any info about it not being supported on
different clients.
Thanks
John Stephens
speaking of subfile backups, does anyone know if there are plans to
add this feature to unix clients?
Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
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We use the TSM subfile backup for backing up windows 2000 servers over a
WAN network. And it helps, really helps.
We have run into four problems, Three of them are design issues:
1) The subfile cache, which
We use the TSM subfile backup for backing up windows 2000 servers over a
WAN network. And it helps, really helps.
We have run into four problems, Three of them are design issues:
1) The subfile cache, which is located on the client to store the checksums
for each block of a backed up file. This
>>Question: does anyone have "practical" experience with subfile backups?
Yep - about 350 Win2K machines using it for last 2 years.
Our server is still 4.2.1.15, clients at 4.2.0.0; haven't tried it yet at
5.1 server.
>>Is it easy to implement?
Yep. Really straightforward.
Easy to test, easy to
Enviro:
W2K TSM server 5.1.6.3
W2K client 5.1.5.15
I have read in the W2K Admin Guide about subfile backups.
We have a remote NT server where our T1 bandwidth just doesn't seem to get
the TSM incrementals-forever completed.
I am thinking of configuring subfile backups along with client compress
My mistake.
I was missing an exclude.subfile statement to exclude al files first!
> -Original Message-
> From: Rushforth, Tim
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:51 PM
> To: ADSM-L (E-mail)
> Subject: Subfile backup - extra files in subfilecachepath
>
&
I'm just starting to test out subfile backup...
My include is include.subfile d:\data\outlook\*.pst
This directory contains only one file. There are no other include.subfile
(q inclexcl shows no others).
On an incremental of just the directory above, the subfilesache directory
conta
All,
Started receiving this error in the DSMERROR.LOG on one of my WAN clients
that is using Adaptive subfile differencing. Anyone seen this before? I can
not locate any documentation on this error.
Bruce E. Lowrie
Sr. Systems Analyst
Information Technology Services
Storage, Output, Legacy
*E-Ma
Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Subfile Backup
Look here:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManage
rClient4.2.1.html
There are a number of options, what you want is the Wind
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Subject: Subfile Backup
Could someone point me to the docs or a short tutorial on subfile backups.
>From what little I've seen, I don't quite understand what they are for in
the grand TSM scheme of things.
Could someone point me to the docs or a short tutorial on subfile backups.
>From what little I've seen, I don't quite understand what they are for in
the
grand TSM scheme of things.
Hi,
I am just starting to roll out 4.2.1.20 win clients. I will use both journalling
and subfile backups. Every client gets a special schedule that will run once
every 4 weeks to force a non journaled backup and non subfile backup. Here
is one of the schedules -
def schedule standard
Sorry, I meant the c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\cache subdirectory.
-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 5:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WG: subfile backup configuration
I believe if you delete the
4 AM
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Subject: AW: WG: subfile backup configuration
Hi Thomas-Anton,
Thanks for your answer.
I know the most functionalities of the subfile backup and its
working-procedures but it would be
fantasic when you could send me your document. I 'm shure there are some
decribtions a
Hi Wolf-Christian,
if you have included your .pst files to subfile backup the TSM client is using
the subfile feature in the following way. At the first time TSM is sending the
base file to the server. Afterwards the changes will be send as a delta file by
byte level (1 kB to 3 MB) or block
> Hi,
>
> to backup the pst-files of our nt-servers we use the tsm-software 4.2.1.16
> and with that the feature adaptive subfile backup.
> It works quiet well but I want to know how I can set manualy the boarders,
> when automaticly
> the adaptive subfile backup chan
tag, 10. Januar 2002 19:28
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: Subfile Backup Experience
>
>
> That sounds good. I have read the docs about Subfilebackup
> and have 2 more
> questions.
>
> what about the TESTFLAG Takeownership for dsm.opt is
> it still in
&g
application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
With regards,
Stefan Holzwarth
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2002 19:50
> An: [EMAIL
; An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: Subfile Backup Experience
>
>
> One of our TSM servers backs up approx. 350 Wintel desktops
> nightly, plus
> about 30 Windows & UNIX servers.
>
> Our users keep their .pst files on their desktops, rather than on the
>
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Subject: Subfile Backup Experience
Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst
files
(Outlook)
The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night
over a
2 MBit line.
I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst
Files
k of the growth was those .pst files.
I turned on subfile backup last Nov. 1 for all our desktops via a client
option set. I let it grab everything, not just the .pst files, and it has
dropped my daily load by about 30%!
Haven't had ANY problem with it. I tested extensively on .pst files
Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst files
(Outlook)
The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night over a
2 MBit line.
I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst
Files with
exclude.subfile "*"
include.subfile "?:
Does anyone know how to use subfilebackup on NT Clients only for special
fileextension(s)?
I see only a solution using a second scheduler service with a different opt
file.
(I think outlook pst files are ideal for subfilebackup even in large
fileserverenvironments.)
With regards,
Stefan Holzwar
Hello,
You could do it with the include exclude list, try
exclude.subfile \uncname\c$\...\*.*
exclude.subfile \uncname\c$\...\*
include.subfile \\uncname\c$\...\*.ext
Where .ext is the special file extension you do want to use subfile backup
with. TSM doesnt read the include/exclude.subfile
I am testing the Windows subfile backup capability.
When using the GUI to back up selected files, the total bytes sent implies
that subfile backup is working.
However, looking at dsmsched.log, it still says:
timstamp normal file ===> nnn \filename\blah\blah\blah [sent]
Is nnn
RY command.
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From: Gerd Becker
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 1/27/01 4:45 AM
Subject: Too many Backups - I used subfile backup
Hi *sm'ers.
I found a phenomen on my system and can not explain how. I tested
subfile
backup but now I disabled it.
I have following Management-Cl
Hi *sm'ers.
I found a phenomen on my system and can not explain how. I tested subfile
backup but now I disabled it.
I have following Management-Class defined and selected during backup with
include-statement.
PolicyPolicyMgmt Copy Versions Versions Retain Retain
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