Hi all,
This one is for Netware and groupwise admins.
I'm looking at putting TSM servers into some small sites which run Netware servers.
Part of the equation is that they run Groupwise post offices as well.
I'm not a Novell person, but I've looked at the TSM, Novell and Groupwise
documentation and this is how it seems to me.
The SMDR component and TSAFS provide SMS services which allow objects to be presented
to a backup product. When you run *any* other product's tsa, then the product's
objects are expressed within the SMS object tree and *should* therefore be accessible
to any backup product which uses SMS services.
As an example, the TSM product uses TSANDS to backup the edirectory using exactly
this mechanism.
However, the TSM client seems to have a different interface built in for each TSA - to
work with NDS objects, it is necessary to specify nds: as part of the name, ie, NDS
Support has been added into the TSM client rather than extending the general
functionality of SMS backup.
BackupExec can backup Groupwise objects as easily as any other SMS object. I've heard
that TSM cannot.
1. Is it still the case that TSM can't backup Groupwise objects?
2. Is my limited understanding of the Novell backup environment and its interaction
with TSM correct?
3. Is there any way to couple the Groupwise and TSM APIs other than SMS? I'm aware of
the DBCOPY and GWBACKUP utilities, but they leave a lot to be desired and are not
incremental in nature.
Many thanks for your comments
Steve.
PS I've only had the one reply to my post about backup rates for file servers.
Please, if you have any data, share it.
Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia
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