We just completed an ADSM install for a client with 2 Sun 450 servers and STK
libraries. Everyone involved was very impressed with the speed of the Sun
boxes.
The Quad ethernet card (we come into it off a switch) has been a winner!
Regarding end user backups, some ambitious types (not me, I'm way too busy) may
want to look at seeing how to put a web server on each fileserver that is also
an
ADSM client, then let "end users" (desktops, typically), log into this with a
browser (all desktops have browsers now) and their loginid's, pass a request
to it,
and then a backend process would initiate a dsmc restore or query command using
the
ADSM password, masked from the end user, that only looked for the end users
files!
Sounds simple! You could atleast always get them to their own home directories.
Anyway, this would be a 3rd party product that a lot of users would want! Many
sites have hundreds and even thousands of users sharing fileservers, and having
admin staff or help desk people do restores will soon appear to be archaic. Of
course, maybe file servers will go away, especially now that IBM has announced
a 25
GB IDE disk drive for the desktop! Now, everyone can have 25GB!
Larry Chisesi
CoComp Technical Services
Steven P Roder wrote:
> > > To save ADSM marketing too much digging around, is there any chance those
> > > of
> > > you running your ADSM servers on Solaris could let me have some company
> > > names to get an idea of how popular this choice of server platform is?
> > > This
>
> We run it here at the University at Buffalo on an E3002 with Magstar-MP
> drives (eight 3570-C1A across two 3575-L12's). We have a 44GB database,
> and just over 6TB of data on tape, and a duplicate 6TB of data on tape in
> a vault.
>
> As far as the server goes, it has been very stable, and
> installation/maintenance is a snap, as IBM provides everything in pkg
> format, including the IBMtape device driver. The main problems I have had
> are with IBMtape, and the 3570 microcode, almost all of which are now
> resolved. All of you out there with 3570's: That microcode was
> developed as a result of my problems here over the past 8 months. ;-).
>
> > We desperately need the DFS-client ported over to solaris though, as we
> > generally don't have AIX machines and are relying on DFS in the future.
>
> Same here. As a stop-gap, we are backing up our DFS filesystems via AIX,
> but would much perfer to use the Sun client and hardware platform.
>
> > Another thing is that I still haven't grasped is how to let each user
> > restore his own files on the fileserver.. It seems that IBM has a seriously
> > screwed picture on how to differentiate between client machines and users.
> > :)
>
> We do not allow end-user restores. However, this is a general client
> issue, and not related to the server platform.
>
> > > they are the first 'victims' ;-). I'd be interested if there are any known
> > > glitches with using Solaris servers.
>
> Not any more than there is for any of the other server platforms. Nearly
> all of the code is common on all platforms.
>
> One last word on the Solaris platform: I can personnally say that the
> ADSM Solaris Server development team is top notch, and have been extremely
> responsive to my problems.
>
> My main concern at this time in the game is the Sun DFS Client issue.
>
> IBM, is one planned? If so, when? If not, why not?
>
> Steve (unVMix Systems Programmer/Dude) Roder
> (tkssteve AT ubvm.cc.buffalo DOT edu | tkssteve AT acsu.buffalo DOT edu |
> (716)645-3564 ,
> | http://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/~tkssteve)
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