Hi Mike,

Setups like this are possible, but one of the biggest issue's is
cross-mounting disks to different O/S's. We are solving that in the near
future by extending our licensing of veritas volume manager to enable us
to cross-mount disks to different o/s's - although I am unsure if this
effects wintel platforms.

Currently, without the ability to cross-mount disks on different o/s's
we use a server per O/s. We mirror / bc-copy / rsync etc.. production
disk, split the mirrors and mount them up onto the relevant 'mount
server' for that o/s. Then a single TSM client & StorageAgent
installation on the 'mount server' performs backups to the server.

There is quite a supporting set of scripts to handle it all, but we are
finding it is working well, and making TSM paths much easier to handle
:). We loose some flexibility for manipulating the data once it is in
TSM as everything is backed up under a single TSM node-name, so we end
up seeing our 'nodes' as 'filespaces' under the mount-server nodename.

Matt.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Mike
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: can server-free do this?

We have a shark and are looking at getting a fastT. Currently
one platform uses the shark's ability to 'snap' backups. We're
considering doing the same 'snap'ping of backups with the other
two platforms (aix with the shark and intel with the fastT).
If the platform snaps a backup, is there a way through the SAN
fabric to mount that filesystem (difficult for intel I think)
directly to the tsm server (AIX) so the tsm server reads the
files instead of using a tsm client on the client nodes?

I'm thinking that if I can even mount the intel filesystem (NTFS)
that I must backup the filesystem using blocks rather than files.

Mike


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