Hi Zoltan,
You are correct: backups taken with the TSM client for NetWare must be
restored with the TSM client for NetWare. It is not possible to restore
them with a different client.
Best regards,
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 2011-06-06
12:10:47:
> From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU>
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Date: 2011-06-06 12:13
> Subject: Netware backup restores
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>
>
> Stupid question time for which I am pretty sure I know the answer but
must
> ask......
>
> We are terminating our Netware license for Netware servers. So,
effective
> July 1, we can not legally have any running/functioning Netware servers.
>
> From everything I understand (please correct me if I am wrong), you CAN
> NOT restore Netware backups to anything other than a Netware server.
>
> So, as far as I am concerned (and have told my last remaining Netware
> server admins), any Netware backups after June 30, are mostly useless.
> Besides, the contents have been migrated to other Windoz servers.
>
> Yet we still have folks wanting to perform, last final backups of long
> dismounted volumes (thus flushed out of TSM, long ago).
>
> Am I correct on this? Am I missing anything?
> Zoltan Forray
> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> UCC/Office of Technology Services
> zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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