Hi all,

This one is for Netware and groupwise admins.

I'm looking at putting TSM servers into some small sites which run Netware 
servers. Part of the equation is that they run Groupwise post offices as well.

I'm not a Novell person, but I've looked at the TSM, Novell and Groupwise 
documentation and this is how it seems to me.

The SMDR component and TSAFS provide SMS services which allow objects to be 
presented to a backup product.  When you run *any* other product's tsa, then 
the product's objects are expressed within the SMS object tree and  *should* 
therefore be accessible to any backup product which uses SMS services.

As an example, the TSM product uses  TSANDS to backup the  edirectory using 
exactly this mechanism.
However, the TSM client seems to have a different interface built in for each 
TSA - to work with NDS objects, it is necessary to specify nds: as part of the 
name, ie, NDS Support has been added into the TSM  client rather than extending 
the general functionality of SMS backup.

BackupExec can backup Groupwise objects  as easily as any other SMS object. 
I've heard that TSM cannot.

1. Is it still the case that TSM can't backup Groupwise objects?
2. Is my limited understanding of the Novell backup environment and its 
interaction with TSM correct?
3. Is there any  way to couple the Groupwise and TSM APIs other than SMS? I'm 
aware of the DBCOPY and GWBACKUP utilities, but they leave a lot to be desired 
and are not incremental in nature.


Many thanks for your comments

Steve.

PS  I've only had the one reply to my post about backup rates for file servers. 
 Please, if you have any data, share it.


Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia




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