On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:08:21PM +1100, Carl Makin wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:25, Paul Mather wrote: > > > Tivoli provide no FreeBSD TSM client. (Boo, hiss!) > > Contact your local Tivoli salesdroid and request one. They can fire the > request back into IBM. If we get enough requests, they might actually > think about doing one. > > I've had very limited success with the linux client and basically gave > up on it. > > We're using the ancient SCO v2 client running under iBCS2 emulation > which I have packaged up to make it easy to install. I'll email it to > you in a separate email. The GUI doesn't work properly and it can't > handle files over 2Gb in size, but otherwise the command line client > works fine. Since there is no /compat/iBCS2 structure the emulation > doesn't hide the FreeBSD filesystems which is a major pain with the > Linux client.
Sorry to jump in, but ... Would you also email the material to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or make them available for download somewhere? Our site is converting to TSM, and has several FreeBSD systems that need to be backed up. Thanks. > > About the brightest prospect I can see in the immediate future is > finding an implementation of NDMP for FreeBSD and using NDMP support in > TSM. Unfortunately that support is currently only at NDMP v2 which > means whole volume backups and restores. File level backups and > restores require NDMP v3 compatibility which is due in TSM middle of > next year (apparently). > > On that topic there was a little traffic in freebsd-scsi in January 2001 > regarding NDMP on FreeBSD. Has anyone got this working? > > > Carl.
