Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-10-01 Thread Howard Coles
Ya' Howard > -Original Message- > From: Howard Coles > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:46 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] NBU user considering switch to TSM > > See below. > > See Ya' > Howard > > > > -O

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-10-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Thanks to Remco for pointing out to me that TSM 5.3 has added this capability. I stand corrected. > First, let me verify what I was told TSM _could_ do. I was told that during > the initial backup (if you went straight to tape, such as with a large > dataset), TSM could write to two tape drive

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-10-01 Thread Howard Coles
See below. See Ya' Howard > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Paul Zarnowski > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:55 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NBU user considering switch to TS

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-10-01 Thread Paul Zarnowski
4 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NBU user considering switch to TSM > > Thanks so much for all the responses. I'd like to reply to just a few > responses for clarification. You're welcome. > Regarding simultaneous copies, Howard Coles said: > I'm

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-10-01 Thread Howard Coles
See in line answers below See Ya' Howard > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of steve sorenson > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:44 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NBU user co

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Stef Coene
> First, let me verify what I was told TMS _could_ do. I was told that > during the initial backup (if you went straight to tape, such as with a > large dataset), TSM could write to two tape drives simultaneously, making > two copies in the time it takes to make one. Is that part true? Yes. Norm

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread steve sorenson
Thanks so much for all the responses. I'd like to reply to just a few responses for clarification. Regarding simultaneous copies, Howard Coles said: >I have had migration happening while >backing up to a copypool, while a client was trying to fill up the disk >pool and TSM handled it just fine.

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread fastweb
r 30, 2008 7:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM At 06:58 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not during migration and while copying to the copy pool. TSM can migrate from random-

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Raju Maurya
r 30, 2008 7:56 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM > > > At 06:58 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: > > >> 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not > > >> during migration and while cop

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM At 06:58 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: > >> 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not > >> during migration and while copying to the copy pool. > >> > >

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 06:58 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: >> 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not >> during migration and while copying to the copy pool. >> > > TSM can migrate from random-access disk to serial (tape), simultaneously > copying to the copy pool(s). I don't h

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-30 Thread Howard Coles
See my response added to the many others below. See Ya' Howard > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of steve sorenson > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 4:58 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-29 Thread Wanda Prather
> > >> 1. TSM will be migrating to a full DB2 database (if so, I think it would >> be >> the only one to use such a full-featured database for backups). When will >> that happen? >> > > True. I don't know if IBM has announced a date yet >> TSM 6.1, which is "expected" to be announced by the en

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
2. Image backup (for a drive with millions of files) didn't support file-level restore. Challenges can be addressed by alternate means. Depending upon the client type, real-time backup could meet the need of assured data capture on heavily populated systems, thus reducing or eliminating the ne

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-29 Thread steve sorenson
Paul Zarnowski said: >> 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not >> during migration and while copying to the copy pool. >> > > TSM can migrate from random-access disk to serial (tape), simultaneously > copying to the copy pool(s). I don't have first-hand experienc

Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-29 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 05:57 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: Hello all. I'm a long-time user of NBU, but have recently started to consider switching our backups over to TSM. My coworker used TSM at a previous company, but his experience was not as good as a friend of mine who speaks very highly of TSM. I have

NBU user considering switch to TSM

2008-09-29 Thread steve sorenson
Hello all. I'm a long-time user of NBU, but have recently started to consider switching our backups over to TSM. My coworker used TSM at a previous company, but his experience was not as good as a friend of mine who speaks very highly of TSM. I have a basic understanding of TSM's architecture, h