Since TSM doesn't use the native tsagw interface, you almost have to use St. Bernard OFM. The only other alternative I know of is to run a cron job to stop the poa/mta before the backup, and guestimate when to bring them back up. As far as I've seen though, using the OFM combo works just fine. I've had to do several restores in the last 6 months, and they all went off without a hitch. It is relatively annoying however, that you have to restore an entire PO just to get back a few deleted messages from one user's mailbox. GW6.5 has features to allow that without restoring the whole PO, but that requires more disk space than we have available. If possible, it's also a good idea to have the backup window be different from the window when post office maintennace is running. Slows things down like crazy here, but we can't avoid it.
Troy Frank Network Services University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation 608.829.5384 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/8/2004 2:26:23 PM >>> Peter Hadikin wrote: >Hello everybody, > >Netware seems to be the one environment where I find the stars need to >be aligned properly for everything to work for backups and restores. I >am wondering what version of TSM client and what versions of >TSAFS/TSA600/SMDR everybody is using out there for both Netware 6 and >Netware 6.5 servers. Anybody have any thoughts or recommendations? > >Have a super weekend, >Peter > > > Hi , Since we took a poll early this week I would like to take a small survey in regards to Novell Netware and GroupWise. What is everybodies overall satisfaction with the Netware/GroupWise support under TSM. How do you typically manage the Netware data (basically the question and above). Also, how is everybody managing the GroupWise data? Do you do cold backups or use St. Bernard OFM (or some other OFM type product)? Anybody try writing there own interface through the API? Is there any 3rd party SW for GroupWise that works with TSM? I personally have not done much with Novell in a TSM environment, but I am running into more customers that have it. Any comments or experiences that you have and would like to share would be appreciated. Thank You. -- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. =============================================================================== MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE =============================================================================== Confidentiality Notice follows: The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if any) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken, or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard copies you may have created and notify me immediately by replying to this email. Thank you.
