Using TSM 6.4 or 7.1 to backup VMs? Take a look at IBM KB “TSM data mover backups of VMware guests might be unrecoverable”

If you use TSM 6.4 or 7.1 for your VMware guest backup, you should take care of IBM KB Ref# 1684022 “TSM data mover backups of VMware guests might be unrecoverable“.

Under certain conditions the backup of the VMware guests will be incomplete, but still marked as successful.

The following products are affected:

  • Tivoli Storage Manager Windows and Linux x86 Backup-Archive Client version 6.4.0.x – 6.4.1.x.
  • Tivoli Storage Manager Windows and Linux x86 Backup-Archive Client version 7.1.0.0 – 7.1.0.2
  • Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware version 6.4.0 and 6.4.1 when used with an affected Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client version
  • Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware version 7.1.0 when used with an affected Tivoli Storage Manager Backup-Archive Client version

IBM KB Ref# 1684022 “TSM data mover backups of VMware guests might be unrecoverable

 

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