Cannot see VSS USER DATA & VSS OTHER from recover operation

Question

Dears:

I must to backup a Windows 2003 client,saveset is all.

When backup to complete and success,I try to use NetWoker User & recover command to restore,but I cannot see two index of VSS USER DATA & VSS OTHER.

Please help me to check.

Thanks

BR

Danny

Check as below pictures.

Backup Server:NetWorker 7.6.3.2

Backup Client: Windows 2003 Enterprise X64 SP1

Vincent01011 · Accepted Answer

Dear Hrvoje:Thanks for your reply.I test other client,they are 5KB saved.As below screen you can check it.ThanksBRDanny

ble1 · Answer

Because they are 0KB saved there is nothing to be seen.

ble1 · Answer

5KB is nothing - probably as empty fs which is 4KB usually on UNIX machines. I believe both are specific to win2k3 machines, but top of my head I have no idea what gets inside.

I just checked my environment and I see following:

# mminfo -t '24 hours ago' -av -r name,client,totalsize | grep USER | wc -l

175

Now, out of 175 clients doing this saveset, most of them report totalsize to be 3xx or 4xx bytes. Only 3 clients had different value. I checked one, which is our vCenter host, and it has following:

C:\Windows\Temp\backcomp.1120148665.xml

C:\Windows\Temp\ADAM (VMwareVCMSDS) Writer.1120146462.xml

D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\VMwareVCMSDS\adamntds.dit

D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\VMwareVCMSDS\

D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\VMwareVCMSDS\edb.log

D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\VMwareVCMSDS\edb.chk

VSS USER DATA:\ADAM (VMwareVCMSDS) Writer\

VSS USER DATA:\

/

10 objects found

The other two I have no idea top of my head what they are, but I checked them and they contain user profiles - just what would you expect from USER DATA saveset. My bet is that others do not have data which fits those VSS savesets and thus they are empty (bare in mind that USER DATA at least is always done as full backup). Thus, I conclude, the machine which is giving you nothing has nothing to offer so no worries.

Vincent01011 · Answer

Dear Hrvoje:

Thanks for your kindly and detail reply.

I understand from your post.

I test as below,the size is too small.

Many thanks for your help.

BR

Danny

[root@backup ~]# mminfo -t '24 hours ago' -av -r name,client,totalsize

name client total

bootstrap backup 100260

bootstrap backup 109028

bootstrap backup 110692

index:sqlcer backup 53980

index:sqlcer backup 1063192

index:sqlcer backup 3697552

C:\ sqlcer 73811872

C:\ sqlcer 65689484

VSS ASR DISK:\ sqlcer 12164932

VSS ASR DISK:\ sqlcer 12164892

VSS ASR DISK:\ sqlcer 12165076

VSS ASR DISK:\ sqlcer 12165200

VSS OTHER:\ sqlcer 440

VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ sqlcer 44184652

VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ sqlcer 0

VSS SYSTEM BOOT:\ sqlcer 44241988

VSS SYSTEM FILESET:\ sqlcer 872583020

VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:\ sqlcer 28729500

VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:\ sqlcer 0

VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:\ sqlcer 28765828

VSS USER DATA:\ sqlcer 440

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