Hi Zoltan

I had a meeting a couple of months back withe the local TSM sales guy
and the whole sales stack back to the US, and raised the issue of other
DBMS.   they pointed me at Zmanda for Mysql and BMC SQLBacktrack for
Sybase.  I wasn't impressed either.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin,
Paraparaumu, New Zealand.

Remco Post wrote:

On 18 mei 2010, at 16:23, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:

Thanks for the reference.  I should have mentioned I already looked at
this.

My bosses requirements are:     ANY product must be supported by
IBM/Tivoli for usage on a TSM server. Point-in-time recovery is mandatory,
or there is no point to using any product.

From what I have read (correct me if I am wrong) about using mysqldump, it
doesn't do/support this process.

it does. You can keep as many backups as you want, and make them as frequently 
as you want. MySQL supports roll-forward of database journals IIRC, so if you 
set the DB to roll-forward logging, archive the logs to TSM and make frequent 
MySQL dumps, you can recover to any point in time. Of course, if your data is 
that valuable that you need to be able to recover to any specific point in 
time, investing in a commercial DB like db2 or Oracle makes sense.

API applications are all supported for usage on a TSM server. It's just that 
the code using the API is not supported, so that part is up to you. That is the 
way open source works....

Zmanda most likely uses the TSM API as well, it's just a commercial 
implementation... So you pay for support rather than do it yourself.

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