* ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-12 10:26]:
> Hi,
> Does anybody out there have a working knowledge of Swedish?
>
> I find myself having to use the Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive
> client (dsmc).
>
> As much as I would prefer a free solution, this is the only offsite
> backup supported in my organisaton and if I want to maintain an
> OpenBSD server, I will have to get OpenBSD to talk to the Tivoli
> server.
>
> The only (hopefully) useful search result I could find was this page,
> but it appears to be in Swedish:
>
> http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=bus&a=2005-06&t=966999
>
> I tried automatic translation (http://tinyurl.com/f7vgq), but still
> couldn't quite make sense of it. I emailed the OP, but haven't gotten
> a reply thus far.
>
> Would anyone be able to help?
>
> Many thanks,
> --ropers
On 12/10/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi.
I happen to also run Tivoli/TSM.
As far as I know there is no native OpenBSD Tivoli client. and for
disaster recovery purposes (if that's all you are using it for) you
don't really need one - the tivoli client does object by object (read
that - file by file) backup with "incrementals forever" - this is fine
for basically "user initiated restores" of an oops - which tivoli is
very good at. However, it's mostly unneccessary for a DR copy of
a system image.
There are however, linux and solaris clients. My suggestion? make a
linux or solaris box and install the client on it. set an appropritate
retention schedule for that in tsm, and attach a blob of disk to it,
send dumps from openbsd over ssh by cron nightly to that machine,
which in turn getst the blob of disk backed up to tsm. To restore, you
bring the appropriate dumpfile(s) back from tsm on that machine and
then make use of them on your OpenBSD box. (this of course precludes
the use of the "user restore" type stuff in tivoli - you are simply
storing copies of your dumps in tsm.
There *is* a documented C api to tivoli, unfortunately
it uses their libraries - so again, you can't write a native client
to do this easily. You could *possibly* write something on linux
and run it in linux emul mode, but I'm not that brave. I trust
dump and ssh.
-Bob
I'd been hoping to get the Linux TSM client to work on the OpenBSD box
under compat_linux(8)**. It seems to me that that's what's described
by that Swedish email post, but I don't quite understand it. The only
real option I have in terms of using another box to do the
backup/restore work would be using an existing Windows server and
running the Windows TSM client there, but I would really prefer
getting the Linux TSM client to work on OpenBSD.
**)
or use any other client OpenBSD can emulate cf. http://tinyurl.com/yxsnmm
