Guillaume,

The word I have  from TSM is fall 2002  (Version 5.1.5) for a truly cluster 
aware Netware client. In the meantime you can get backups, but there are a few 
drawbacks.
The main one is that TSM doesn't recognize logical volumes as independent of 
their host machines. In other words if a volume fails over TSM sees it as a new 
volume on a
new node and backs it up as if it was the first time. We also had a problem 
with NW6 where the client would not recognize shared (or NSS volumes), the fix 
for that had
to do with a setting in NW having to do with how NWbackup was configured. This 
was/is not an issue with NW5.1

Don't know what specific posts you came across in the archives, but if you 
search on posts from myself or  Seth Forgosh ( I think) you may find some more 
specifics.

Sorry, but I'm not familiar with the Arcserve agent.

Guillaume Gilbert wrote:

> Hi all
>
> We are going to be backing up some Netware soon and I have a few questions 
> from the sysadmins.
>
> They use Open File Agent from ArcServe. Is there a similar solution fro TSM?
>
> I searched the archives for posts concerning backing up Novell clusters and 
> what I found wasn't to clear. It seems there is no clear cut solution like 
> with MSCS. Is
> anybody backing up a Novell cluster succesfully?
>
> Also, this is the first time I'll be dealing with Netware. Are there any 
> gotchas I should be aware of or does the manuel tell everything I need to 
> know? The client
> version will probably be 5.1 as will the server.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Guillaume Gilbert
> CGI Canada

--
Jim Kirkman
Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
966-5884