Dave, you are correct, it is a regular, unmodified Windows client.

It is my understanding that the client that ships with the box has been
certified by the NAS development team to work with that box, and
therefore, other client versions are not supported on that box. However, I
would recommend that customers check with IBM NAS support for definitive
information.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Dave Cannon/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
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The 300G solution is not NDMP-based, but is a TSM Windows client running
in
the NAS box (hence, there should be no need for the TSM client to access
the NAS file system using CIFS/NFS).  I assume that this is a standard
Windows client with no storage agent (i.e, support for IP but not FC), but
I don't know that for sure.

Dave Cannon
Tivoli Storage Manager Development
Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group
dcannon AT us.ibm DOT com

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                      John Bremer
                      <jbremer AT lanl DOT gov        To:       "ADSM: Dist Stor
Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>,
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                                               cc:       Dave
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                      09/11/2002 01:57         Subject:  Re: NAS backup
                      PM






Dave,

On this subject, would you explain briefly the TSM backup solution that
can
be ordered with the IBM NAS (300G) product line?  It is my understanding
that it is also not an NDMP solution, however a special (?) integrated
client that is shipped with the product.

Is the IBM NAS client no different than our TSM Windows NT/XP/2K version,
and works over IP and FC networks?

Thanks.  Regards, John


At 01:23 PM 9/11/02 -0700, Dave Cannon wrote:
>TSM currently does not support NDMP backup/recovery of EMC Clariion.  The
>solution described in the referenced white paper does not involve use of
>NDMP.  Instead, this solution involves using a TSM client to access files
>on the Clariion, which are backed up LAN-free to volumes in the TSM
stoage
>hierarchy.  In contrast to TSM's NDMP support, this method provides
>file-level backups, requires data transfer over a SAN, and may not
>necessarily preserve file attributes.
>
>Dave Cannon
>Tivoli Storage Manager Development
>Tivoli Storage Products, IBM Software Group
>dcannon AT us.ibm DOT com
>
>
>
>
>-----------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:34:08 -0400
>From:    Jin Bae Chi <jbaechi AT CSCC DOT EDU>
>Subject: Re: NAS backup
>
>Dave, Thanks for your information. I was curious about EMC NAS products
>and found what they say about their EMC Clariion FC4700 backup support
>with TSM. Could you help me to understand what EMC says about backup or
>shouldn't I trust them at all? Thanks again.
>
>Here is the link:
>http://www.emc.com/pdf/products/clariion/h711_tivoli_san.pdf
>
>
>
>
>Jin Bae Chi (Gus)
>System Admin/Tivoli
>Data Center
>614-287-2496/5922
>614-287-5488 Fax
>jbaechi AT cscc DOT edu