We use it here and have had no issues...My only complaint is its lack of enterprise type reporting. Unless you have the Tivoli Framework installed there is not a real good report system. I had to write a script that parses the TSM logs on each server to give me an effective report on back up status. Still better than BrightStore or Veritas.
Regards Rick Clemens -----Original Message----- From: Erik L. Vesneski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:16 PM To: Exchange Discussions You cannot restore an exchange mailbox individually however only the full store and go from there. Erik L. Vesneski Sr. Systems Specialist ISO - Intel Systems Ph#: 925-685-6161 www.pmigroup.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Dryden, Karen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:05 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager We use it for all 100+ of our NT4, Win2000, and Unix servers, and for Exchange, SQL, and Oracle. We also have their robotic tape unit and once you get it setup, it works great. After working with DLT tapes for years, this system is wonderful since you never have to touch tapes again. We still have some mainframe apps left and some operators, so our operators do the offsite tape removals and insert clean tapes, based on reports from the TSM server. It's really nice to be able to backup a server to disk (TSM server disk) rather than to tape (though it eventually moves to tape) for those times that you need to move to new hardware. Our full backups start weekly on Friday night and all of our servers are finished backing up by Saturday night since once you do your initial full, you only do incremental from then on, except for the databases. The TSM database tracks locations of all files and we've never had a TSM database problem. Restores are a breeze, including Exchange mailbox restores. We've been using it for about 5 years and the only issue is that you need to know exactly what client version each server is running or, if you do a restore, be sure to do it from the server that you're restoring unless you upgrade the client version on all servers every time a new version comes out. We've used a lot of backup/restore products over the years and this one has them all beat by far. It's very expensive, though, so unless you've got lots of servers, it may not be cost effective. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager Anyone using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager for backing up Exchange? Got any thoughts (good or bad) you'd like to share on the product? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
