Hi Jin,
Something similar to what we've done - except we didn't go
the LAN-Free route. We installed the 32Bit Windows client
for netware - mapped the Netware volumes to 2000, and then
did a TSM Lan backup to our TSM server. I'm not too sure
if the storage agent on Windows will be able to work with
a network drive - might not even recognize the drive?
The only problem we have with the mapped drives backing
up through Windows is when our Netware Cluster (6 nodes),
does a fail-over - the Windows 32bit Netware client actually
places a lock on the NSS volume for the files it is busy
with - this prevents NSS to do a fail-over.
(Before someone asks 'But why are you not using the native
Netware TSM client on the Netware box for the backup?' - it
is a case of the Netware client being single CPU bound and
the backup pushing this single CPU to 100% when there is
other workload on the box.
So - I don't think the LAN-Free route will work - maybe
someone else has tried this in their environment?
Regards
Christo
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Hi, TSMers,
This is kind of followup question I opened previously with 'LAN free
backup of Novell'; I found out TSM doesn't have Storage Agent for
NetWare platform.
As alternative solution, I plan to install Storage Agent on a Windows
2000 client and backup all network drives ( G: H: I: J: etc) to do LAN
free backup to tape library, 3575. As we are Novell shop, I wonder if I
can backup data with NSS format from network drives (actual data resides
on EMC Clariion box) and restore them to original place without
corrupting the data, using Windows as client platform? Any comment will
be appreciated. Thanks.
Jin Bae Chi (Gus)
System Admin/Tivoli
Data Center
614-287-5270
614-287-5488 Fax
jbaechi AT cscc DOT edu
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