Geoff

Teradata is a non-relational database technology that runs on its own
dedicated and optimised hardware.

One of my customers has it and was backing up to the mainframe tape
drives some how.  They wanted to install the TSM interface, which is
called TARA. (Teradata Archive/Restore API I think).

It was kludgy but I did get it to work as far as backing up one table.
The customer had decided  the TARA server was to be Windows rather than
Linux. I could  not get the scheduling side of the product to work, and
the local Teradata expert was not a lot of help.  In fact it looked like
they had given the linux product to the work-experience kid to convert
to windows as a summer project. Seriously, one of the windows batch
files had chmod statements in it!

For that reason I recommended against proceeding further. The product
clearly was not ready for production use.  That was a year ago, and
things may have improved. If you go that way, I'd suggest linux rather
than windows.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Canberra Australia

On 16/06/2012 2:04 AM, Hart, Charles A wrote:

We have one and it has Netbackup Wrapped up in side with its own tape
library.  We don't manage the backups terradata does ...

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We had some meetings a long time ago about acquiring one (which we
didn't).  At that time it was a specialized database appliance.  I seem
to
remember a discussion that it did have a TSM API interface client of
some
kind.

Rick





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Date:   06/15/2012 11:17 AM
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On 15 jun. 2012, at 15:41, Geoff Gill wrote:

I was wondering if anyone could tell me is this application is on

Oracle, Microsoft SQL, some other DB or possibly all of the above.
I've been told it's none of the above. All (1) Teradata installations
that
I know of have a dedicated tape library.

Thank You
Geoff Gill

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