Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:25:21 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Tivoli TSM client on FreeBSD?? Message-ID: <20021103032521.GA29256@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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I'm trying to archive my filesystems to our TSM server, but am not
having much luck at all. I wonder if anyone has had more success?
(BTW, I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Sep 9 12:40:17 EDT
2002.)
Tivoli provide no FreeBSD TSM client. (Boo, hiss!) 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'm guessing that one complication with using the Linux client is that
when looking up the mount points for filesystems, it would actually be
rooting them at /compat/linux, and not at the "real" mount points
above there (e.g., it would back up files under /compat/linux/usr
instead of /usr). So, it's not clear that the Linux client could be
used to archive or back up a FreeBSD system properly anyway.
I also tried the Unixware V4.1 client (as I'd heard that people have
had more success with that), but couldn't even get that to run. But,
the client programs are dynamically linked, and I don't have the
Unixware libraries, so it's no surprise it failed to start up.
Has anyone had any success using TSM on FreeBSD?? If so, I'd be glad
of any suggestions.
Cheers,
Paul.
e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu
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