Hi David,

this is a very interesting question. And AFAIK right now here is no other way to
back up a NAS device with TSM than the one that Network Appliance described.
Because Tivoli does not support NDMP and you can't install a B/A client on a
filer you have to establish a network share from a normal TSM client to the NAS
device and back up the remote drive.

At least this is what I have learned while creating a bid for one of our
customers. He uses a Network Appliance filer and wants to back up it via NDMP in
a SAN environment. That criteria killed TSM as a backup solution and so we're
offering Legato instead (the bid volume is a seven-digit number...).

I am wondering when Tivoli finally will have their own NDMP solution? Hopefully
I will learn more from the TSM seminar I will attend on thursday?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
                Dirk Billerbeck


Dirk Billerbeck
GE CompuNet Kiel
Network and Systems Management
Am Jaegersberg 20, 24161 Altenholz (Kiel), Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 117, Fax: +49 (0) 431 / 3609 - 190,
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"Irvine, David (ANFIS)" <david.irvine AT ANFIS.CO DOT UK> on 16.05.2000 10:37:47

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