Regarding your 4th bullet, there is no Server Less backup as yet.  In all
cases the data must be passed through a server between the SAN disk storage
and the SAN tape storage.



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William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc




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Hello,

I will soon implement my first TSM Server on a SAN network.

The SAN is connected with a MA8000 storage server, 5 NT clients, and 1 Sun
Unix server
Each machine has local disk + san-attached storage and will use TDP for
oracle to make backups
(data on the MA8000).

I read that a backup/archive of regular files is also possible since TSM
4.2.

Now, is it correct that with LAN-Free backup :

                - I can't use diskpools (on the SAN), with migration (next
storage pool)
to the tapelibrary, over the SAN ?
                - You always make a "direct connection" from the backup
client to the
storage device which takes the backup
                  (tape).  So data transfers twice through the SAN-switch ?