I am trying to backup my passive copies of my mailbox databases using TSM DP for MS Exchange 6.3. My Exchange enviroment is Exchange 2010 SP 2 running on Windows 2008 R2 server. The error given from the script is: ANS5252E TSM attempted to execute a system command which failed. command : "C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\excvssic.exe" C:\adsm.sys\vss_staging\MCEXCHMBXDR01_EXCHANGE\PTSMWN01 \20120504083438\4c44f49d-24de-48a6-b46d-3ed349b2c690_Audit.txt rc : -1811 I opened a ticket with IBM whom pointed to these errors that are Microsoft VSS issues. Thus why i am posting here. Any help would be appreciated.Jeffrey S. Lefever

# Restart the Informations Store to get the writer stable # Can you try Creating a Test Database and try backing it up with TSM DP & Update us. # If both fails # Run Windows Server backup on the same database -------------------------------------------- This will answer us more questions Satheshwaran Manoharan | Exchange 2003/2007/2010 | Blog:http://www.careexchange.in | Please mark it as an answer if it really helps you

Hi Did you try above solution? How about rebooted Exchange server and re-initialized TSM software and connection. CheersZi Feng TechNet Community Support

Hello, Thanks for the advice! In following your instructions I did use a test database and found the BA Client to be corrupt so I un installed the BA client side and then rebooted and re installed using version 6.3. Then configured the client and a password reset to the TEM server and poof backups started run with VSS and sent on as archives to the TSM server. The only question I have is, does anyone know of a good exchange powershell backup script for an exchange DAG? The one provided by IBM is very clunky and hard to mdify. Jeffrey S. Lefever

Hi For Script, you could ask on the Script Forum, the people there are happy to answer you http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-pl/ITCG/threads CheersZi Feng TechNet Community Support