Guillaume, The word I have from TSM is fall 2002 (Version 5.1.5) for a truly cluster aware Netware client. In the meantime you can get backups, but there are a few drawbacks. The main one is that TSM doesn't recognize logical volumes as independent of their host machines. In other words if a volume fails over TSM sees it as a new volume on a new node and backs it up as if it was the first time. We also had a problem with NW6 where the client would not recognize shared (or NSS volumes), the fix for that had to do with a setting in NW having to do with how NWbackup was configured. This was/is not an issue with NW5.1
Don't know what specific posts you came across in the archives, but if you search on posts from myself or Seth Forgosh ( I think) you may find some more specifics. Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the Arcserve agent. Guillaume Gilbert wrote: > Hi all > > We are going to be backing up some Netware soon and I have a few questions from the >sysadmins. > > They use Open File Agent from ArcServe. Is there a similar solution fro TSM? > > I searched the archives for posts concerning backing up Novell clusters and what I >found wasn't to clear. It seems there is no clear cut solution like with MSCS. Is > anybody backing up a Novell cluster succesfully? > > Also, this is the first time I'll be dealing with Netware. Are there any gotchas I >should be aware of or does the manuel tell everything I need to know? The client > version will probably be 5.1 as will the server. > > Thanks for the help > > Guillaume Gilbert > CGI Canada -- Jim Kirkman AIS - Systems UNC-Chapel Hill 966-5884
