A VM based TSM server is not the same as a VM file-level backup/restore
facility. The TSM server dis not provide a CMS based client. It was a
server for other systems.
Now if you are pre-announcing the ability to feed backup data from other
systems into the current Backup/Restore Manager, I would be interested
in learning more. Sites that have z/VM and Linux suffer from
split-personalities for backups. z/VM for disaster backup of DASD images
and TSM backups for linux filelevel restores is how I face two different
processes for backups. Others use Bacula or Amanda for the linux
backups, still a split from z/VM.
A nice compromise for your Backup/Restore Manager (not going all the way
to mimic a TSM server) would be if you could Read/Write properly
shutdown linux filesystems and store the data with the same encrypted
tape facilities you have for backup of CMS files.
/Tom Kern
Tracy Dean wrote:
Dennis,
You have read the documents correctly. The VM TSM Server was not included
in the TSM 5.3 family and TSM 5.2 went end of support earlier this year.
As I know you already know, IBM's solution for file level backup on z/VM is
Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM, although I realize this isn't the same
as a TSM server.
Tracy Dean
IBM
