Hi,
> If you Google "tsm ubuntu" you will see that many folks have gotten it to
> work using varying methods, such as "alien". Here is an example....
>
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/unclug/2007-August/000404.html
We re-package the TSM client for our environment, including packaging
it for our debian/ubuntu users. If you want to get the client working
on ubuntu there are a few things to note:
1. The dsmj script requires ksh (sudo apt-get install ksh)
2. dsmj needs Sun java not gij (check wih "java -version"):
1. check you have the multiverse enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
3. double check java runs the Sun jre not gij:
update-alternatives --display java
java -version
3. Ubuntu does not seem to have 8-bit ISO8859-1 locales installed by
default. If you only have UTF8 filenames on the disk then a UTF8
locale ("locale" command shows ??_??.UTF-8) will suffice when backing
up. However, if you have any filenames in non-UTF8 encodings then you
probably want to use "en_US" so you do not get any "ANS4042E Object
name contains unrecognized characters" errors. If the "en_US" locale
is not listed with "locale -a" you need to install it with:
sudo locale-gen en_US
then you can run backups with:
LANG=en_US LC_ALL=en_US dsmc incr
With this, characters in all encodings will get backed up: ISO8859,
UTF-8 etc. If you try "en_US" and it isn't installed, it looks like
it defaults back to 7-bit C/POSIX and all characters >127 get
skipped.
Aside from these little gotchas, and the fact that this is officially
unsupported, the client functions fine on all recent Debain and Ubuntu
machines.
Hope this helps,
Pete
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Peter Jones
Senior Specialist (HFS)
Oxford University Computing Services
