I admined GW For about 9 years, and the best overall for TSM is St.
Bernard's OFM.  The GWBackup utility creates an exact copy of your Post
Office to another location, but that adds Admin overhead.  The GWTSA
would work great if IBM would get off their butt and support it.  Then
GW Becomes just another file system, only messages, sort of like the
tsands did for NDS.

Set your opt file just like you would any other TSM NetWare client, and
install St. Bernard to handle the open files.  I've done restores after
this kind of backup, and if the backup was complete, the restore always
worked. 
Make sure you exclude the wpsin and wpsout type folders, as TSM will
complain.  I don't have a copy of all the excludes handy. The main
folders to make *sure* you get are the ofuser, ofmsg, offile, and the
post office db files.

See Ya'
Howard

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Del Hoobler
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:45 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Groupwise on Netware Server

On possibility for your to look at is GWBACKUP...

        http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana19991005.html

http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw55/index.html?page=/documentation/
gw55/gw55mnt/data/a3n60nr.html

GWBACKUP will allow you to dump the data to flat files.
You can then use the TSM Backup-Archive client to send and store those
files on the TSM Server.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 02/05/2008
11:31:42 AM:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any information on backing up a Groupwise mailserver 
> on
> Netware(6.5 SP6) using a TSM server (AIX).  IBM have stated that the
best I
> can hope for is a fuzzy backup.  Not really a good selling point when
I'm
> trying to provide a single backup solution to the company.  I keep
finding
> references to St Bernards Open File Manager but need more info on how
this
> would work.
>
> Any advice, opt file examples, configurations or tech papers 
> gratefully received.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim