Backup list empty after discovering TSM backups.

Konstantin Vlasenko posted on Fri, Sep 18 2009 10:07 AM

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Issue
The TSM backups do not discovered by Recovery Manager for SharePoint (RMSP)
PythonWCF.log file contains: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

Reason
RMSP 3.0 (and older) tries to use "en-US" culture to convert the date string for a TSM backup
RMSP 3.1 tries to use client computer current culture to convert the date string for a TSM backup
The error will occure in case if date string format differs from expected culture.

Resolution
For RMSP 3.0 open the outputparser.py file.
For RMSP 3.1 open the backuplist.py file.

Then find the DateTime.Parse(time, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture) or DateTime.Parse(time, CultureInfo("en-US")) and change this to
DateTime.Parse(time, CultureInfo("en-GB") in case of English (United Kingdom) date string format.

This settings will be moved to configuration file for the next RMSP versions.