I feel for you Zoltan

My users are demanding, but at least the corporate management structure means I 
have some measure of control over their demands.

There is a TSM client REST API that came out at 7.1.3.  This can be used to run 
backups and restores although the API guide explicitly states that it is not 
supposed to be used for long-running tasks.  I don’t know if later versions 
have lifted that restriction.

Since you are a university, you might have some smart coders available. I 
envisage a web-based service that at the back end runs this API to select what 
to restore and then run it.  That could all reside on the one box, with it 
effectively being a reverse proxy to your Windows backup servers.

As you aren’t the only one in this particular bind, the result might be 
commercially viable as a paid product.  If it gets that far I claim 5% OK?  

Cheers

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant 
Canberra Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Zoltan Forray
Sent: Friday, 12 January 2018 7:39 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a. how do you do 
it

With the demise of the B/A web-client in 7.1.8+, we are in desperate need of an 
alternative solution to handling our DFS/ISILON backups.

Being a university, the big issue is that everyone wants control over backups 
to be able to perform restores by themselves!

Our current (soon to be unusable) solution is 3-dedicated physical Windows 
servers with 25-configurations/services (each) of the B/A client (each with 
unique ports for the web-client).  The backup schedules contain the specific 
filesystem/mount it backs up.  So, department level folks can use a web browser 
to connect to the correct port on the backup servers to manage their restores.

The volume of backups makes it almost impossible to shift everything to one 
node (380TB / 225M objects) and if one server was able to handle it, it would 
shift restore responsibility to some sort of "help desk"!

So, how do you handle this kind of scenario in your institution/organization?

--
*Zoltan Forray*
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Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office 
of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807 
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