was: Keeping an handle... -- now: portable backup sets

If only the Wintel boxes had/have a FC card-- I could buy a spare (or two
for compatibility with existing hardware) and go about using the 3590 tapes
for backupsets.  Perhaps this would be doable for any boxes that died here
at HQ, but for the 150 odd other boxes statewide, this isn't a feature for
them.

I have found some DVD-R with external SCSI so I could attach it to the 6M1,
and create a media that the wintel boxes (on the whole) could read without
problems.

lisa



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Lisa,

You have SAN. Can you san attach your TSM drives?  That way you could
direct attach them to the Wintel boxes without a direct physical
attachment.

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin, Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia

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I was mucking about on Thursday, checking out the backupset option for a
server that died that day.  It appears to me that I need to find a CD/DVD
burner that will attach to a 6M1, or to a FC director to be able to make
backupsets in my environment?  I understood the documentation to mean that
the sequential media device needs to be defined as a device class on the
server, and since I am AIX in a SAN environment (well, almost SAN...we're
working on it), I don't have many options for the NT boxes that I would
like to make backupsets for  (I mean, I don't see connecting an NT box to a
3494 or a 3590 drive).  I guess I could use an 3580 that would be
"portable"?

Am I missing something, or is this the way it actually is?

thanks,
lisa



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Actually, Dan, sorry for my remark.

What you have to do is revisit what you are saving and put in exclude.dirs
for all directories that contain software that can be rebuilt from a common
desktop image (hard drive replacment).  Have your users save their
documents
in specific folders and only back them up.  Then they just have to
customize
their desktop configure their node name in the dsm.opt and restore the
stuff
that is backed up.

This is the trade-off.

The other approach is the backupset that is a CD sent to them and
incremental restore from that point forward.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180