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Lindsay Morris
TSMworks, Inc.
1-919-403-8260
www.tsmworks.com

TSM is quite good in cross platfrom restores to be honest. Unix-to- unix works like charm (ignore osx ahem). Try to do it in NetWorker for example. Solaris to Linux to HP-UX to AIX or whatever - no way, not supported, you are screwed.

V.J.
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Odesílatel: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] za uživat ele Lindsay Morris [lindsay AT TSMWORKS DOT COM]

Odesláno: 5. ledna 2010 17:51
Komu: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Předmět: Re: [ADSM-L] Disparate Client Options

Thanks.

Really, I wish there was one code base for the dsmc client. As it is now, Windows-dsmc and unix-dsmc have different command-line options and other

differences too.

And the cross-platform problem with dsmc makes it hard for us to do what we

do (ie, restore testing across all platforms).
(Cross-platform problem means: from a WINDOWS dsmc client, you can

successfully connect to a TSM server, and use "-asnode=some-UNIX- node" to masquerade as another node; but then "query filespaces" comes back empty.

And vice versa. )

Just grumbling.  We dealt with it.

Lindsay Morris
Principal
TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Nick Laflamme <dplaflamme AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Got it in one, LIndsay, got it in one.

Nick

On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Lindsay Morris wrote:

Right, but then Nick has to keep dsm.sys files up to date on all his
clients.
Ick.

What he wants is a central way to issue dsmc commands and point them to a

different TSM server, with no client-side setup required.
Right, Nick?

We don't have a good answer for this either.

Lindsay Morris
Principal
TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Howard Coles <

Howard.Coles AT ardenthealth DOT com

wrote:

In UNIX use the -optfile= option and specify an opt file that points to a separate Stanza in the dsm.sys file. Another way of doing the same

thing essentially.

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.