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BackupSet creativity

2003-09-29 11:25:58
Subject: BackupSet creativity
From: Todd Lundstedt <Todd_Lundstedt AT VIA-CHRISTI DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:23:54 -0500
Although this shouldn't matter, I am running TSM 5.1.7.1 on AIX 4.3.3.

We are moving a large number and size of files from a Netware server to an
NT server, and I am trying to come up with a way to help the process so we
don't have to use a workstation to copy files from a Netware mount to a
Windows mount (which really slows things down because the data has to
travel from the Netware server to the workstation and then to the NT
server all on one network connection).

I can't give client access rights to an NT server for Netware backups
because of the file/folder rights/properties/attributes issues.  So, my
bright idea was to generate a backupset of the Netware volume to the TSM
server, delete the backup set, define that tape volume to the NT server as
a backup set, and restore the data from TSM (my understanding is a
backupset is unencrypted backups with no rights/properties information...
just files and folders, perhaps readonly, hidden etc attributes included).
 The generate backupset went well (after I used move nodedata to place all
the files on one tape).  The delete and define had no noticeable issues.
We are trying to do the restore of the backupset to the NT server now, but
nothing is moving.  The session started only has 4.5K sent and 694bytes
rcv'd.  It has been sitting like that for 20 minutes.  I visually checked
the tape drive, and the light is flashing as if the drive is doing
something (LTO library).  The NT admin verifies that there are no
folders/files restored.

Was this a pipe dream to begin with?

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