Micheal

here is what I do, I have about close to 55 filers and I could not afford
TDP for NDMP and also that my TSM servers are running 4.2.20

What I have down here works only it you have an NIS enviroment

1. I force a snapshot manually on all the filers at the volume leve from
    admin host nightly (over writes the previous one)
2. export the snapshot via NIS as a remote map (say auto.nacbkp)
   ex:- /nacbkup/<filername>.<vol-name>.tsm.nightly0
3. Use proxy TSM clients to mount the above NIS maps via CRON and then
   send the data over the network on to the media server (TSM)

Now that I have nearly 100 volumes puttogether, I distribute the load on 4
to 5 proxy TSM clients.

If you need I can send your the shell scritps on how this is done

hope this helps. BTW I also read that the TDP for NDMP is only supported
on TSM 5.1 and also does support for filers with direct attached tape-libs

Cheers..


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Wheelock, Michael D wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are looking at a TSM solution here at our facility.  We are also looking
> at reorganizing our file shares onto a Network Appliance platform.  From a
> thorough reading of the TSM 5.1 manuals, it seems that TDP for NDMP only
> supports image backups.  Needless to say on a busy fileserver that isn't
> going to fly.  While it might be a good disaster recovery solution, it is
> not the right one for day to day operations.
>
> My question is, how do most people back these things up?  Do you use a CIFS
> or NFS share and backup that way?  Or is there something I am missing?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michael Wheelock
> Integris Health of Oklahoma
>