I feel for you Zoltan My users are demanding, but at least the corporate management structure means I have some measure of control over their demands.
There is a TSM client REST API that came out at 7.1.3. This can be used to run backups and restores although the API guide explicitly states that it is not supposed to be used for long-running tasks. I don’t know if later versions have lifted that restriction. Since you are a university, you might have some smart coders available. I envisage a web-based service that at the back end runs this API to select what to restore and then run it. That could all reside on the one box, with it effectively being a reverse proxy to your Windows backup servers. As you aren’t the only one in this particular bind, the result might be commercially viable as a paid product. If it gets that far I claim 5% OK? Cheers Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Friday, 12 January 2018 7:39 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a. how do you do it With the demise of the B/A web-client in 7.1.8+, we are in desperate need of an alternative solution to handling our DFS/ISILON backups. Being a university, the big issue is that everyone wants control over backups to be able to perform restores by themselves! Our current (soon to be unusable) solution is 3-dedicated physical Windows servers with 25-configurations/services (each) of the B/A client (each with unique ports for the web-client). The backup schedules contain the specific filesystem/mount it backs up. So, department level folks can use a web browser to connect to the correct port on the backup servers to manage their restores. The volume of backups makes it almost impossible to shift everything to one node (380TB / 225M objects) and if one server was able to handle it, it would shift restore responsibility to some sort of "help desk"! So, how do you handle this kind of scenario in your institution/organization? -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/ This message and any attachment is confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. You should immediately delete the message if you are not the intended recipient. If you have received this email by mistake please delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its content to anyone. This electronic communication may contain general financial product advice but should not be relied upon or construed as a recommendation of any financial product. The information has been prepared without taking into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. You should consider the Product Disclosure Statement relating to the financial product and consult your financial adviser before making a decision about whether to acquire, hold or dispose of a financial product. For further details on the financial product please go to http://www.bt.com.au Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
