Hi again. last one from me and then I'll shut up. I've been toying for years with the idea of wrapping the TSM API so it could be accessed from modern scripting languages. One reason would be to re-implement something like the old adsmpipe program. Others would be to clean up leftovers of decommissioned nodes or trump Oracle DBAs who unilaterally exceed their agreed retention periods.
Lately my thinking has been to do this in Java as then it would be available to anything using the JVM, such as Javascript with Rhino, Jruby, Jython, even Clojure if that suits. The Java FFI makes calling the C api possible. Unless you have been under a rock you will have heard about Docker. This technology is sweeping all before it and I can see it becoming ubiquitous very quickly. One of the features of Docker is the Docker volume which is like a private file system for it. So I was considering how to back up a docker volume, and one way would be to back it up as a single object from the host OS. That would be an excellent use case for the TSM VE API... that is, break the docker volume into 128MB chunks and run a subfile-style delta backup on each, with full copies being taken once the amount of change or number of deltas gets too large. However, looking at the API Docs, I see no exposure of the VE API. Anyone know of plans to make the VE API publicly available? Regards Steve Steven Harris Dreamer of programming way beyond his ability Canberra Australia
