I could quibble - they have to do all that anyway, right, across the various
clients?

But you're right about other things being more important for the normal TSM
user.

Lindsay Morris
Principal
TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Lindsay Morris wrote:
>
> > True, unix to unix works, and windows to windows too. Osx and netware are
> oddballs, but not so common.
> >
> > But we build an appliance that wants to "dsmc restore" from ALL the nodes
> on a TSM site, windows and unix both, to spot-check recoverability. Dsmc
> blocks cross-platfrm restores (windows vs unix at leadt), and for no good
> reason, AFAIK.
>
> Well...consider what's involved.  The good reason is that a fully
> cross-platform client architecture would have to include full programming
> for the universe of file system types accommodated on all the supported
> platforms - and additionally would have to adeptly provide a meta layer of
> emulation of the wealth of system calls associated with the file system
> which is not native to the receiving platform.  That's an enormous amount of
> development and testing and maintenance.  I'd rather that their energies
> went toward things like 64-bit clients, and administrative API, and
> long-overdue evolution of the terribly neglected CLI.
>
>   Richard Sims
>