Karen also gave a part of the TSM 37 marketing conference call.
The handouts for this had a foil titled "Tivoli Storage Manager 2000 roadmap";
one bullet is 'NAS filer NDMP support'.  So I guess they have
something planned.


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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge, Ma.
bcolwell AT draper DOT com
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In <002f01bf108b$d1c04300$4b1e989e@oemcomputer>, on 10/07/99
In <002f01bf108b$d1c04300$4b1e989e@oemcomputer>, on 10/07/99
   at 07:18 AM, "Alan R. White" <arw AT TIPPER.DEMON.CO DOT UK> said:

>Karen Dutch gave a good overview of the problems with NAS backup and asked
>what we (customers) really wanted when we said we want this. I'll try and
>summarise.

>NetApp filers (does anyone use NDMP with anything else??) can 1/ drive
>locally attached tape drives or can 2/ send the filesystem (as a single
>image) across the network to a backup server.

>Pros and cons for each should be fairly obvious. The locally attached drives
>defeat the purpose in having a centralised backup mechanism and the single
>image means you can't restore an individual file from the image.

>A combination of backup via NFS/CIFS to the ADSM server to get file level
>granularity combined with local dumps on the filer for fast recovery would
>seem to be the optimum solution. In any case we should perhaps discuss what
>it is we really want and get the message in. There appears to be a
>willingness to do it now if we can just articulate what we really want.

>Open discussion invited....

>Alan




>----- Original Message -----
>From: Laszlo Nemeth <Laszlo.Nemeth AT SYBASE DOT COM>
>To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 5:27 AM
>Subject: Re: When will ADSM be ndmp compliant?


>> my opinion is ibm won't because
>> a) alot of people have been asking for years
>> b) ibm doesn't do network attached
>> c) ibm is probably hoping to replace network attached with a SANS
>>
>> just my opinion AND I REALLY WISH THEY WOULD IMPLEMENT A NDMP AGENT
>>
>>
>> laz