Re: Backing up the TSM server itself

2002-05-25 Thread Seay, Paul
-Original Message- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backing up the TSM server itself If you're trying to have something for use in a recovery environment, I'd be inclined to us tar instead. Think about

Re: Backing up the TSM server itself

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Roder
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > If you're trying to have something for use in a recovery environment, I'd be > inclined to us tar instead. > > Think about it -- your TSM server is not available, how do you restore the > TSM server files? I have two servers. Each server backs up itsel

Re: Backing up the TSM server itself

2002-05-24 Thread Joshua S. Bassi
All you need is the MKSYSB tape and the latest TSM database backup, in addition to the files you are already saving. No need to backup everything else. -- Joshua S. Bassi Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Cert

Re: Backing up the TSM server itself

2002-05-24 Thread Kauffman, Tom
If you're trying to have something for use in a recovery environment, I'd be inclined to us tar instead. Think about it -- your TSM server is not available, how do you restore the TSM server files? (Yes, backup sets will work -- If you created them beforehand AND the system has compatible tape d

Re: Backing up the TSM server itself

2002-05-24 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Thomas, We surely do. I have source for TSM scripts, AIX shell scripts for reporting out TSM data, /etc/inittab, crontab, dsmaccnt.log, snmp customization and other customization I've probably forgotten about on the TSM server that would be a real pain in the posterior to recreate. So we ba