I think you are mixing apples and oranges. I use TSM as my storage manager
but in order for Sybase and TSM to play
together, an XBSA shared library must be used. ADSM used to include this
but they pulled the shared library out of their software distribution some
time ago and started marketing Tivoli Data Protection products which
basically provide the shared library function as does SQL BackTrack for
Sybase. I use SQL BackTrack for Sybase as well as SQL BT for Informix. The
API function is supplied by the TSM client which also requires the XBSA
shared library to communicate with the Sybase and Informix backup clients.

George Lesho
AFC Enterprises
Storage/System Admin





Lawrence Clark <Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
11/02/2001 08:03:07 AM

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we use SQL-BACKTRACK.

>>> FELTHAMR AT UK.IBM DOT COM 11/02/01 06:40AM >>>
Guys and Girls,

I am currently looking at using TSM Client with Sybase. I've tried to find
info on the  API but I'm having little luck. I know I can dump the
databsae files to another file system and then backup form there but I'm
constrained by network loads (i can't keep dumping 64GB of db files). Can
anyone assure me that the Sybase API works or indeed has used it or even
knows of its existence.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Richard Feltham
EMEA Technical Centre - Storage Management Team
External: +44 (0)1962 819878
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Internet: felthamr AT uk.ibm DOT com
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