Date: 04 Nov 2002 14:08:21 +1100 From: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ADSM List <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Subject: Re: Tivoli TSM client on FreeBSD?? Message-ID: <1036379301.26849.185.camel@newton.aipo.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <20021103032521.GA29256@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <20021103032521.GA29256@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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Hi Paul, On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:25, Paul Mather wrote: > Tivoli provide no FreeBSD TSM client. (Boo, hiss!) Contact your local Tivoli salesdroid and request one. They can fire the request back into IBM. If we get enough requests, they might actually think about doing one. > They do provide a > Linux client (up to V5.1), and a Unixware client (up to V4.1). I > tried the Linux client (using the linux_base port), with limited > success. I was able to run dsmc (the command line client), and could > communicate with the TSM server, but when I tried an ARCHIVE command, > it just hung there doing nothing. I've had very limited success with the linux client and basically gave up on it. We're using the ancient SCO v2 client running under iBCS2 emulation which I have packaged up to make it easy to install. I'll email it to you in a separate email. The GUI doesn't work properly and it can't handle files over 2Gb in size, but otherwise the command line client works fine. Since there is no /compat/iBCS2 structure the emulation doesn't hide the FreeBSD filesystems which is a major pain with the Linux client. About the brightest prospect I can see in the immediate future is finding an implementation of NDMP for FreeBSD and using NDMP support in TSM. Unfortunately that support is currently only at NDMP v2 which means whole volume backups and restores. File level backups and restores require NDMP v3 compatibility which is due in TSM middle of next year (apparently). On that topic there was a little traffic in freebsd-scsi in January 2001 regarding NDMP on FreeBSD. Has anyone got this working? Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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