Hi Zoltan,

This may not be the most sophisticated way, but works perfectly on our
system, without having to play with ndmp, images backup etc ...
We defined a windows node (machine having good networking capability)
which will be the central "file ditributor" for NAS backups, granted
this machine an access on the different filespaces defined into the NAS,
and finally backuped the data (incremental file backup)using standard
TSM client. The only thing you'll have to do is to modify the dsm.opt
file, that it includes your UNC names ...
It would look like :
DOMAIN  C:
DOMAIN  D:
DOMAIN  \\nas_server_name\filespace_name1$
DOMAIN  \\nas_server_name\filespace_name2$
DOMAIN  \\nas_server_name\filespace_name3$

Off course this could be made on AIX system, using NFS mounts ...
My 2 cents !
Cheers.

Arnaud

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-----Original Message-----
From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU] 
Sent: Monday, 25 August, 2003 16:21
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: NAS/NDMP backups


New adventure time.

I just had a co-worker come to me to let me know the NAS HEAD was
installed and configured and ready to be backed-up.

Now what ?

I have absolutely no experience with this type of box.

I had been digging in the manuals and found lots of info refering to
using the NDMP process/interface of TSM to perform essentially, IMAGE
type dumps/backups.

The books also say this only allows for IMAGE type restores, not FILE
level.

I also see that TSM 5.2 now supports file-level restores from NDMP
backups (all references on the IBM/TIVOLI site still say this is "coming
in next release.....someone needs to update this).

I need some guidance on setting up NAS backups.

Also, has anyone tried file-level restores via 5.2 ?  We can't install
5.2 yet since all of our AIX systems are still 4.3. We are going to
upgrade one of the test servers, soon.