[OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Vladimir Konrad
Hello, Do you know a way to persuade IBM Tivoli client to do backup of openafs file-system? Currently, I do vos dump on each volume, compress that and the result goes to tapes. But most of the data does not change and it takes very large chunk of space in the backup vault. Any pointers on ho

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Mattias Amnefelt
Vladimir Konrad skrev: Hello, Do you know a way to persuade IBM Tivoli client to do backup of openafs file-system? Currently, I do vos dump on each volume, compress that and the result goes to tapes. But most of the data does not change and it takes very large chunk of space in the backup va

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Vladimir Konrad writes: > Do you know a way to persuade IBM Tivoli client to do backup of openafs > file-system? Not any more. Tivoli dropped support for AFS. We have old binaries that we're still using because they've not broken the API (yet), but I don't think we're allowed to give them out,

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Russ Allbery wrote: Vladimir Konrad writes: Do you know a way to persuade IBM Tivoli client to do backup of openafs file-system? Not any more. Tivoli dropped support for AFS. We have old binaries that we're still using because they've not broken the API (yet), but I don't think we're allow

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
"Christopher D. Clausen" writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Not any more. Tivoli dropped support for AFS. We have old binaries >> that we're still using because they've not broken the API (yet), but I >> don't think we're allowed to give them out, and they're not really a >> long-term solution f

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Kevin Sumner
TSM 6.1 was released last week. We're using the butc plugin for AFS right now with 5.4, though we hope to upgrade to something newer in the not-too-distant future. Kevin Sumner ITS Enterprise Storage Management University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB# 1150, 440 W. Franklin Street, Offic

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Kevin Sumner writes: > TSM 6.1 was released last week. Ah, it's even worse than I thought. > We're using the butc plugin for AFS right now with 5.4, though we hope > to upgrade to something newer in the not-too-distant future. Yeah, we're using it right now with 5.5 but we're in the same boat

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-02 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Russ Allbery wrote: "Christopher D. Clausen" writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Not any more. Tivoli dropped support for AFS. We have old binaries that we're still using because they've not broken the API (yet), but I don't think we're allowed to give them out, and they're not really a long-term

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-03 Thread Vladimir Konrad
Hello, > Have you already done the optimization of not doing a vos dump unless the > volume modify timestamp has changed since the last time you did one? Nope, thanks for the pointer. > Also, note that vos dump can do incrementals. I know that doesn't work > very well with Tivoli's normal no-

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-03 Thread Harald Barth
> > Have you already done the optimization of not doing a vos dump unless the > > volume modify timestamp has changed since the last time you did one? > > Nope, thanks for the pointer. > > > Also, note that vos dump can do incrementals. I know that doesn't work > > very well with Tivoli's norm

Re: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-03 Thread Kristen J. Webb
Mattias Amnefelt wrote: Vladimir Konrad skrev: Hello, Do you know a way to persuade IBM Tivoli client to do backup of openafs file-system? Currently, I do vos dump on each volume, compress that and the result goes to tapes. But most of the data does not change and it takes very large chun

RE: [OpenAFS] openafs and tivoli backup client

2009-04-03 Thread Coy Hile
> > I'm fairly certain the TSM 5.1 client here has AFS support (as I use it > > now): > > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage- > management/maintenance/client/v5r1/AIX/AIX32bit/v517/ > > Oh, I didn't realize they still had the 5.1 client available. Yes, that > approach will work f