On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Setups like this are possible, but one of the biggest issue's is > cross-mounting disks to different O/S's. We are solving that in the near > future by extending our licensing of veritas volume manager to enable us > to cross-mount disks to different o/s's - although I am unsure if this > effects wintel platforms. > > Currently, without the ability to cross-mount disks on different o/s's > we use a server per O/s. We mirror / bc-copy / rsync etc.. production > disk, split the mirrors and mount them up onto the relevant 'mount > server' for that o/s. Then a single TSM client & StorageAgent > installation on the 'mount server' performs backups to the server. > > There is quite a supporting set of scripts to handle it all, but we are > finding it is working well, and making TSM paths much easier to handle > :). We loose some flexibility for manipulating the data once it is in > TSM as everything is backed up under a single TSM node-name, so we end > up seeing our 'nodes' as 'filespaces' under the mount-server nodename. > > Matt. > > _-'-_ > -|- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: can server-free do this? > > We have a shark and are looking at getting a fastT. Currently > one platform uses the shark's ability to 'snap' backups. We're > considering doing the same 'snap'ping of backups with the other > two platforms (aix with the shark and intel with the fastT). > If the platform snaps a backup, is there a way through the SAN > fabric to mount that filesystem (difficult for intel I think) > directly to the tsm server (AIX) so the tsm server reads the > files instead of using a tsm client on the client nodes? > > I'm thinking that if I can even mount the intel filesystem (NTFS) > that I must backup the filesystem using blocks rather than files. > > Mike > > > ___________________________ Disclaimer Notice __________________________ > This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those > to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact > us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution > or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. > > Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited > does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible > for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions > presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of > Powergen Retail Limited. > > Registered addresses: > > Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. > Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 > > Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 > Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432 >
Neat idea. Given one intel box that can snap on fastt, do you know how to tell another box: 1) the snap is complete, 2) which 'filesystem' on the fastt to mount, 3) which box to masquerade as for the backup? Mike
