On 18 mei 2010, at 16:23, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > Thanks for the reference. I should have mentioned I already looked at > this. > > My bosses requirements are: ANY product must be supported by > IBM/Tivoli for usage on a TSM server. Point-in-time recovery is mandatory, > or there is no point to using any product. > > From what I have read (correct me if I am wrong) about using mysqldump, it > doesn't do/support this process.
it does. You can keep as many backups as you want, and make them as frequently as you want. MySQL supports roll-forward of database journals IIRC, so if you set the DB to roll-forward logging, archive the logs to TSM and make frequent MySQL dumps, you can recover to any point in time. Of course, if your data is that valuable that you need to be able to recover to any specific point in time, investing in a commercial DB like db2 or Oracle makes sense. API applications are all supported for usage on a TSM server. It's just that the code using the API is not supported, so that part is up to you. That is the way open source works.... Zmanda most likely uses the TSM API as well, it's just a commercial implementation... So you pay for support rather than do it yourself. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 248 21 622