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 application, and surprisingly they weren't even located on the system drive.
If this is the case they not only will not appear in the list of restorable files (CLI or GUI) but will also not appear as a potential backup object if you try to perform a manual file level backup. This describes the actual scenario: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC92873 This is helpful determining if they were actually be backed up by the system state and how to restore it: http://www.tsmblog.org/step-by-step-recover-a-single-file-from-a-backed-up-systemstate-to-an-alternate-location/ Rick Adamson -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner, Andy Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 5:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] System State files 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 the program "c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmcad.exe" Andy Huebner