Hi Eric, It seems to work for me. Example shown below. In the mean time, is it possible that Windows UAC could be involved? Try opening a Windows OS prompt with the "Run as Administrator" option, then try running a sequence of commands like I show below
---------------------------------------------------------- C:\>md BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2 C:\>echo Hello, World!> C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\testfile1.txt C:\>echo Hello, World!> C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>dir BaseDir /b /s C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1 C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2 C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\testfile1.txt C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>subst t: C:\BaseDir\SubstDrive C:\>dir T: /b /s T:\dir1 T:\dir1\dir2 T:\dir1\testfile1.txt T:\dir1\dir2\testfile2.txt C:\>cd "Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient" C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc i t: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 8.5 Client date/time: 07/18/2019 06:37:56 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2019. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: W2012R2SQL2014 Session established with server BABYLON5: Windows Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 8.000 Server date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:05 Last access: 07/18/2019 06:35:18 Incremental backup of volume 't:' Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\ [Sent] Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1 [Sent] Directory--> 0 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\dir2 [Sent] Normal File--> 15 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\dir2 \testfile2.txt [Sent] Normal File--> 15 \\w2012r2sql2014\t$\dir1\testfile1.txt [Sent] Successful incremental backup of '\\w2012r2sql2014\t$' Total number of objects inspected: 5 Total number of objects backed up: 5 Total number of objects updated: 0 Total number of objects rebound: 0 Total number of objects deleted: 0 Total number of objects expired: 0 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of objects encrypted: 0 Total objects deduplicated: 0 Total number of objects grew: 0 Total number of retries: 0 Total number of bytes inspected: 30 B Total number of bytes processed: 1.18 KB Total bytes before deduplication: 0 B Total bytes after deduplication: 0 B Total number of bytes transferred: 1.33 KB Data transfer time: 0.00 sec Network data transfer rate: 0.00 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate: 0.07 KB/sec Objects compressed by: 0% Deduplication reduction: 0.00% Total data reduction ratio: 0.00% Elapsed processing time: 00:00:19 ANS1900I Return code is 0. ANS1901I Highest return code was 0. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient>dsmc show domain IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 8.5 Client date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:39 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2019. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: W2012R2SQL2014 Session established with server BABYLON5: Windows Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 8.000 Server date/time: 07/18/2019 06:38:48 Last access: 07/18/2019 06:38:24 Domain specifications: domain keywords: not specified -domain : not specified Domains in effect: domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\c$ domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\e$ domain : \\w2012r2sql2014\t$ domain : SYSTEMSTATE domain.image : not specified domain.nas : not specified domain.snapshot : not specified ANS1900I Return code is 0. ANS1901I Highest return code was 0. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient> ---------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Andy ____________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Raibeck | IBM Spectrum Protect Level 3 | stor...@us.ibm.com "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2019-07-18 05:36:36: > From: "Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM" <eric-van.l...@klm.com> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 2019-07-18 05:37 > Subject: [EXTERNAL] How to make dsmc recognize drives > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Hi guys, > > For some tests I want to create separate drives in Windows and back > them up with SP. I create these drives with the subst command (subst > D: c:\<target directory>). 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