client side encryption question

2017-06-01 Thread Lee, Gary
We are being asked about encrypting our backups. Looking at client side encryption, if they want to encrypt all contents of a drive under windows, is Include.encrypt c:\...\* The best way? Also, what about a bare metal restore of an encrypted client? Using encryptkey=generate Will doing a sys

Cloning a TSM instance

2017-06-01 Thread David Ehresman
I am running TSM 7.1.7.100 on AIX 7.1. I have done a mksysb backup of my TSM machine and restored it to a different but similar machine. I've given it new tsmdbs, tsmlog, and tsmarchlog. When I try to do a dsmserv restore db or a dsmserv format, I get what appear to be db2 errors. Any ideas?

Re: Linux on Power Support - Available now

2017-06-01 Thread Del Hoobler
IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1 now supports the Linux on Power -Llittle Endian Details here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/869bac74-5fc2-4b94-81a2-6153890e029a/entry/Feel_the_power_IBM_Spectrum_Protect_now_supports_the_Linux_on_Power_Systems_little_endian_operating_system?lang=en

Re: Dedup rate on SAP backups

2017-06-01 Thread Marcel Anthonijsz
Hi Eric, I find this redbook, although not for IBM SP, a nice read on best practices for dedup: IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide, SG24-8025-03 It is aimed at IBM ProtecTIER but a lot of these best practices are valid for _any_ deduplication implementation: http://www.redbook

Re: Linux on Power Support - Available now

2017-06-01 Thread Harris, Steven
Thanks for that Del. I realize you can't pre-announce anything here, but a Power-linux LE vBS server to handle TDP for VE would be awesome and avoid many of the architectural limitations of Intel boxes. In my case that would imply TS3500 driver support and Lan free as well. Can we assume that

TDP for SQL and UAC

2017-06-01 Thread Harris, Steven
Hi All I've got a bit of a show-stopper here that I could use some help with. Previously, SQL backups have been mostly handled by dump to disk and backup with BA Client. Database sizes have grown over time and now we cannot get through the whole dump/backup cycle in a reasonable window, so we