>> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:20:24 -0700, "Clark, Robert A" >> <robert.cl...@providence.org> said:
> May I infer then that you have no nodes running recent versions of > windows server? You may. My TSM servers run on AIX, all the way. I'll include only by reference my long-term antipathy towards MS products. The price advantage is gradually making me (whiningly) approach running on linux. But there'll be a -lot- of whining on the way. :) > I realize that it take two to tango, and MS has become prodigious at > shitting the bed with broken WMI writers, SNP bugs, setting the > default VSS provider to whatever a third party product installed > last and providing no way to change it, etc. But I have Windows > admins that want to mass defect back to the 5.3 client as they have > the abiding perception that anything later is crap. Hmm. You're talking clients, here. I've got loads of windows _clients_, (of course). > They also complain bitterly of an ASR/BMR restore process that > Machiavelli, Kafka, or Stanslaw Lem would be proud of, and install > BESR. <Filesx/FastBack?> Is that TSM's fault? My sense (as an observer) is that ASR is a huge delicate pile of frozen offal. BMR is hard under the best of circumstances, and MS has no motiviation to make life easy for IBM. When folks want BMR, I tell them to go find a product that does BMR. Back up their ghost server or something. - Allen S. Rout
