Paul,

Thanks. I reread the article twice now, and come to a different conclusion,
ie case sensitive files on a Windows file system cannot be backed up with a
Windows client, except for the first file alphabetically sorted.

The solution would either be disabling case sensitivity (probably not
feasable) or backup the files over the network from another (*nix) node
(not ideal).

Kind regards,

Rick




On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Paul van Dongen <Paul.vanDongen AT vancis DOT 
nl>wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> Yes, we have it explicitly YES. If it is NO, TSM gives an error message.
> If it is YES, TSM backs up the first file of the conflicting "group" and
> logs a warning for the other ones (they are not backed up).
>
> Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
>
> Paul van Dongen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Rick Harderwijk
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 15:04
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM client vs Windows SFU
>
> Paul,
>
> CASESENSITIVEAWARE default value is NO (as per
> http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fr_opt_casesensitiveaware.html
> ),
> so the option should explicitly be set to YES, I understand from that
> document. Is the option explicitly set to YES in the dsm.opt ?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Paul van Dongen <Paul.vanDongen AT vancis DOT 
> nl
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi TSMers,
> >
> > I am once more try to make use of your combined knowledge to answer a
> > question that I could not.
> >
> > We have a few new Windows Servers that are, amongst other things, used
> > to export NFS shares. The administrators of these servers have
> > activated a setting that allows Windows to create two files with
> > almost identical names differing only in case (the whole POSIX
> > stuff...). Now they want to backup these file servers with TSM, but
> > the client refuses to backup files whose name differs only in case. I
> > have already told them about the CASESENSITIVEAWARE option, but this
> > has only the effect of making TSM back up the first file with a
> > "conflicting" name. Of course the admins want to backup ALL files.
> >
> > Has any of you seen/used a better way to back up this kind of
> > configuration?
> >
> > BTW, the clients are Windows 2008R2 and they run TSM client 6.4.0.1
> >
> >
> > Thank you all.
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Paul van Dongen System
> > Expert Cloud Strategy
> >
>