Hi Paul,
> Has any body had any experience of this in this type of environment?
Unfortunately YES.
USEUNICODEFILENAMES NO (The Default)
TSM won't backup Japanese filenames unless you run the client on a Japanese NT server.
Adding the Japanese codepage to a UK build won't work.
USEUNICODEFILENAMES YES
TSM will backup Japanese filenames most of the time, but occassionally dies a horrible
death on certain filenames. With lots of people with lots of Japanese filenames, the
client will fail more than it suceeeds.
USEUNICODEFILENAMES is suppose to be used with Macintosh files, any other use is
convenently unsupported by Tivoli.
You need to do your restores, with the same USEUNICODEFILENAMES setting that was done
with the Backup. As you've found.
Under Japanese NT, all filenames with show up in Japanese characters in GUI. The same
can't be said about the WEB GUI.
Tivoli support (especially, the Japanese end) are no help whatsoever. As a company,
Tivoli seem to have no concept that people do business in multiple languages, and as a
backup product Tivoli need to support it. Recents failures, where the NT server
product failed as soon as you run it under Japanese, German etc.. bears testiment to
the fact, Tivoli aren't even testing their products under different languages.
<I'll get off my soap box now >
The only way out of it, is to build a dedicated Japanese NT server, and back
everything up remotely with multiple schedules. The one I set up Tokyo was running 12
backup schedules (that 12 NT services). You need a big box though, preferable with
GigE links to whatever you are going to backup. CPU power is also an issue, I had to
upgrade from a Dual to a Quad processor to get the backups completed overnight.
You'll also have to do your restores from there as well, so need a Remote
Console/Control utility to get to the box and not many of them will let you control a
Japanese PC from an English workstation.
Regards
Andrew Webster
TSM/Storage Consultant
Deutsche Bank, Australia
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14/05/2001 Subject: Japanese Filenames
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Hi all,
We are running an NT environment using version 4 TSM client and server code
to back up all our data. On our file and print server we have a lots of
Japanese filenames. We have installed our NT servers as UK operating
systems, but have installed the Japanese code page to facilitate the use of
Japanese filenames.
When we use TSM gui to back up these filenames they are displayed as invalid
files. We have tried turning on USEUNICODEFILENAMES in the client option
file, and all these seems to do is instead of the filenames being invalid
they appear as question marks.
Has any body had any experience of this in this type of environment?
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