Actually according to the guys at my shop that actually configure and maintain it, you can set up NetBackup to work just like this. I should have been more clear in my comments. There is an optional piece to NetBackup that allows the NetBackup server on one box to function as the "owner of the library and tapes". I think it's called the shared storage option. Each of the client NetBackup pieces running on the various other boxes has direct access to the tape drives and their own storage. They ask the server for a tape drive and a scratch tape, the server hands out the resources (in our library, it mounts the tape on behalf of the client) and tells the client to proceed. Once the client is done backing up the datasets it relinquishes control of the tape drive and media back to the server.
You are right, basic NetBackup pulls all the client data across the network to the server which then writes it all to tape. This is absolutely NOT what I want to do. Yuck. Omniback (now called data protector) from HP works the same way, and it was pretty slick. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSMSrmm basic question Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > Thanks, Radoslaw (and David); > > I will have to check out the "client-server" solution because that is exactly > what I'm looking for. I am using that type of setup for NetBackup on my *IX > boxes and would like the same setup on my "z". I don't want to go through > the hassle of dividing the tapes up into separate volume ranges for each of > the LPARs. > > Putting 1.7 on the production LPAR in less than 2 weeks (finally). To be clear: This is NOT like Netbackup. It's rather like Tantia, aka Harbor or FDR Upstream. Each system still writes data over FICON/ESCON/BUS&TAG to tape drive. Only RMM task updates CDS and journal over network in client-server mode. In other words remote RMM doesn't open datasets, it opens network connection to RMM server which manages datasets. BTW: I wouldn't like LAN-type backup although having such option would be interesting in some cases. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2008 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA wynosi 118.642.672 zote i zosta w caoci wpacony. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
