On Tue, 05 Oct 2004, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote:

> 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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> Mike
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> 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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Neat idea. Given one intel box that can snap on fastt, do you know
how to tell another box: 1) the snap is complete, 2) which 'filesystem'
on the fastt to mount, 3) which box to masquerade as for the backup?

Mike