Thanks Billl,
Never had the need for or thought about it before, but was thinking about it
the context of the question posed the other day where one site was providing
backup services for another and there was a request by the client to have a
copy of the (assumed most recent) backups provided for onsite storage ( and
assumed restores).

Overall it seems a lot of time intensive and manual overhead doing that,
particularly if the client is Windows with a CD/DVD and the TSM server is on
AIX.

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Boyer" <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients

If you have a stand-alone SCSI tape drive, attach that to the TSM server,
define it and then generate the backupset to that
devclass.

Or what about creating a FILE devclass with the with a MAXCAPACITY of
either the CD size or DVD if you're using that. Then FTP them
over to a Windows box to burn the CD/DVD. Just make sure to use BINary
transfer mode. I've heard of people doing that.

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Larry Clark
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:29 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: generating backupsets for Windows clients

It does seem the only practical way to use the backupsets is when the
server and client are on the same platform, or at least
windows server/windows client and unix server/unix client.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard van Denzel" <RvanDenzel AT SLTN DOT NL>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients


Hi Larry,

I know there is a problem with Unicode (Windows) and non-Unicode (AIX).
I've restored a Windows client on AIX and after that nothing could be done
anymore with the AIX client, because it's type got
changed to Unicode.

So I think your conclusion might be right.

Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,

Richard van Denzel.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Larry Clark
Sent: 12 October 2007 13:09
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients

I've read the following comment in the TSM admin manual:

"Software for writing CDs may not work consistently across platforms."

I conclude that it is not practical to generate a backupset on an AIX
server and use that CD on a windows client.

Anyone ever done that?