Paul,

I don't think this would be possible.
It would require the application to understand
the object naming as well as other "internals"
on how it stores the data. Typically, in the case
of the Data Protection clients (or any API application really),
the application that backs up the data is really the only one that
can restore it AND make use of it.
Many times, that is because it must interact with
the application in order to make sense of the data.

The only thing I could see is if the Entegra tool "drove"
the TDP for SQL command-line interface... but then again
I don't think that is what you are looking for.

What would Entegra do with the stream of data anyway?
It is a proprietary stream of data only known by Microsoft SQL Server.
You should investigate what are the exact requirements
of the Entegra tool and how it is supposed to "hook" in to SQL Server.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
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> I guess I misunderstood what the product is probably doing.  The company
> that has this auditing product is LUMIGENT, www.lumigent.com.  The
product
> is Entegra.  I have not talked to their developers as yet, but they seem
to
> be interested in retrieving the objects from TSM through the API.
>
> We have just implemented TDPSQLC for logs and it works great.  This
wrinkle
> though is driving us back to using log intermediate files as you have
> described and backing them up.
>
> Would it be feasible for a tool like Entegra to read the data back
throught
> the API, simulating the TDP for SQL Server?