> >It appears, though I've not done more than take a quick glance, that
> >this product can back up from NFS exports. If so, that might be the
> >least hackish solution.
>
> Sorry to appear lazy, but do you remember where you saw that? IMHO
> IBM's Tivoli documentation is all over the place, that's why I don't
> seem to be finding information to confirm this (much less to help me
> to implement this). If you don't remember then nevermind -- I'll get
> to test the installed Linux dsmc TSM client fairly soon. If I can
> fully test it and IFF it fully works, including restoring the entire
> mullarkey to another HDD, then I could probably use the Linux TSM
> client as is, though I do understand the earlier poster's concerns.
While as you know, the other posters concerns were mine as
well (i.e. I don't necessarily trust the dsmc client in emulation)
the fact is I don't trust *any* of the tivoili (or any other) commercial
backup crap until tested. Whether you run it in emulation *or* via
nfs, or dumps to a disk on a suppoerted machine, you really do
need to test that you can get it back.
Generally speaking, I don't like to use dsmc (even on a supported
machine) for baremetal restore - it's just a pita. I back up the
system with dump or equivalent to somewhere and get the dump file into
tsm. I do use dsmc for luser data and stuff I'm likely to want to
restore a file by file.
YMMV, but whatever you do, test it. I may try your linux
dsm client trick just to see..
-Bob
