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Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Sysback using TSM Server
2010-03-07 00:46:21
Hi Bruce,
When restoring a naked server with Sysback backups sent to TSM, there is
a time when you need to boot on a media that contain an AIX boot image
and some Sysback tools (with the SMIT-like menus). This media can be a
nework boot image served to the Sysback client to be restored by a
Sysback server. This Sysback server can be any Sysback client with
(quite the) same AIX level. You know that, it's like using Sysback
standalone. This Sysback server role can also be your TSM server if you
installed Sysback on it. It's not required but it seems a good option.
In the 5.x realeases of Sysback, there was a separate filespace type
created for Sysback backups. I don't know about 6.x releases.
You can schedule the way you prefer : cron, scheduler, tsm cmd
schedule... Just consider Sysback as a TDP.
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Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON
Le 05/03/2010 16:14, Bruce T. Harvey a écrit :
I've been a fan of Sysback ever since it was a customer support option,
but I've got just a couple of questions with regard to integration with
the TSM Server. I understand that you need to create a virtual tape
device on the client, that it uses separate exclude lists from the TSM
client inclexcl lists, and that it won't back up (properly) certain types
of filesystems or HSM-managed data. My questions are:
1. Do you also install Sysback on the TSM Server in addition to the
client? With stand-alone Sysback, this is true, but with the TSM
integration does the TSM server already come with the knowledge that
Sysback might be talking to it?
2. Does the TSM Scheduler initiate the backups or does the client run
a cron or scheduler job to do so using the virtual tape device? The doc
seems to indicate the latter.
3. Are the image backup sets stored as an image equivalent or as bits
and pieces of separate files? Are separate tape types used in the library
or just part of the ordinary pool?
4. Since I can't boot from tape in this scenario, are the CD and
network boot options behaving the same as with a stand-alone Sysback
server, point there and shoot until I get the Sysback boot menu? Does
this mean that Sysback needs to be installed on the Server and the client
configured so that it can boot?
There seem to be indicators, but the hard-and-fast is escaping me.
Many thanks!
Bruce
Bruce T. Harvey
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