Kelly,

you have at least two options in front:
upgrade TSM server and keep using old clients on old NetWare boxes. Yes,
this is unsupported but does not automatically mean it would not work.
move those Netware boxes to a small separate TSM server at v4.1.x.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




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Subject:        Interim Solution for Novell Backups

TSM 4.1.5
AIX 4.3.3

We are still using Novell Netware 4.11 on some of our major servers,
including our GroupWise email system.  We are phasing out Novell and
bringing in MS servers over the next 1-2 years.  However, we are going to
have to move forward with our TSM upgrade since support for 4.1 is ending
for 3466 users at the end of October.  We will pick up the new MS servers
in TSM as we go but management wants an interim, inexpensive solution for
backing up the Novell servers (which are still running TSM 3.7) in the
meantime.  We are just going to pull them off of TSM.  Does anyone have
any ideas?   Does TSM have another option that would work in the interim?
(Keeping in mind that we don't won't all of our other servers in an
unsupported platform while we wait for our Novell servers to disappear). I
know this is a strange scenario...




Thanks so much!

Kelli Jones
Chesterfield County Information Systems Technology
jonesk AT co.chesterfield.va DOT us
phone: 804-748-1951
fax: 804-748-1571