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Re: TSM 5.1.5 for Mac OS X; serious issues still remain

2002-10-15 22:47:00
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1.5 for Mac OS X; serious issues still remain
From: Mark Stapleton <stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:46:46 -0500
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Remco Post
> So you're sugesting that while we are willing to pay as much for backing
> up a Mac as for a PC, IBM doesn't have to put as much effort in building
> a decent TSM client.

No, what I'm saying is that, given a finite set of resources, IBM/Tivoli is
going to put the vast majority of them into supporting/improving the
platforms that generate the most money. You'll notice how many OS platforms
once had ADSM/TSM clients, but no longer do. (There are a lot of them.)

> Over here, we do backup workstations to protect their users data. If
> tivoli was unwilling to support Mac, they wouldn't have sold the client
> at all. Either do thing good, or don't do them at all. I can inmagine
> developpers have a problem supporting Mac since it's quite different
> from Unix, so they need more time to do the same thing as they do on
> Unix. Windows programming is known to be more complicated, so will
> probably get some more resources.

The normal pattern of data flow within business infrastructures in America
is for workstation users to access data held in a server, edit that data,
and save it back to the server. The servers act as centralized depositories
of data. This minimizes the number of machines that require backups.

> And like all buisnesses IBM is not happy with negative publicity. So
> it's in their intrest to build a decent client, or stop selling it.
> Having said that. My mac is a lot happier with 5.1.5 on MacOS X than it
> was with 5.1.0.

Granted. Were I making decisions at Tivoli, I would withdraw the Mac client
until it worked in a manner reasonably identical to the way Windows and UNIX
clients work. You can bet that, if Tivoli told UNIX users the TSM scheduler
won't work unless a root-level user was logged on, there'd be hell to pay.

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE

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