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CMS Switch to Physical

During a backup job, CA VM:Backup can encounter a minidisk to which changes are being made. For a CMS or CMSALLOC backup, you can specify whether CA VM:Backup switches to a physical backup or skips the minidisk if it is unable to back up the minidisk in the requested format. CA VM:Backup attempts to back up the minidisk in the requested format the number of times you specify. Use the CMS Switch to Physical? field to set the following options:

Yes

CA VM:Backup switches to a physical backup of the minidisk if the minidisk continues to change after the specified number of tries. This option is the default.

No

CA VM:Backup skips the minidisk if the minidisk continues to change after the specified number of tries.

Attempts

CA VM:Backup attempts this number of tries to back up minidisk in the requested format. Specify a whole number from one through nine. By default, CA VM:Backup tries to back up a changing minidisk three times before either switching to a physical backup or skipping the changing minidisk.