Don't know myself, but someone else posted a while back that the System State on Vista is many GB.
That is consistent with what you are seeing - a scheduled backup will do the System State, whether things have changed or not. And selecting the C: drive will not do the system state. As a test, try your backup from thh GUI again, but this time select System STate as well as the C: drive, see if the results change... And please post back the results! On 12/6/07, Tyree, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are testing Vista and I'm seeing something odd. TSM seems > to want to do almost a full backup every time it runs automatically. > > I'm running the 5.5.0 client on a VMware (6.0) Vista > Ultimate box that is talking to a TSM server running 5.4.1 on Windows. > > The backup on the Vista machine is automated using the > DSMCAD service. The incremental backup kicks off at the correct time, > but it ends up doing a full backup. > > I've looked through the dsmsched log on the Vista machine > and I'm seeing where it has contacted the TSM server and picked up the > schedule name and the action. The schedule name is correct and the > action is set to incremental. And several lines in the dsmsched log > mention "Incremental backup of '\\is-vista-test-d\c$' finished". > > The log shows everything just like what I would expect to > say, the issue is that it ends up backing up almost 8 gigs of files each > time the backup runs. I've run scheduled incremental backups almost back > to back on the machine and it picks up 8 gigs each time. The machine is > just sitting there between backups; I'm not doing anything on the > machine in between. > > If I open the GUI and tag the c drive for incremental backup > it goes out and looks at all the files on the drive and backs up a few > dozen files and it done. Just like I would expect it to. > > If I go to the baclient folder and run "dsmc incr" from the > command line it ends up doing what looks like a full backup. > > > > In the last couple of hours I had a scheduled backup run > that moved about 8 gigs worth of files. Right after that finished I did > a c drive backup from the GUI. It moved a few hundred megs of files. > Right behind that I did the "dsmc incr". So far it's moved over 4 gig of > files and is still running. > > > > Anybody got a idea what's going on here? > > > > > > PS, Vista looks good. Except most of our software doesn't > run. The UAC (User Account Control) is a real piece of work. And they > have moved everything around so you can't find what you're looking for. > But at least it looks good.... > > David Tyree > Interface Analyst > South Georgia Medical Center > 229.333.1155 > > Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain > confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all > copies of the original message. > > >