I agree with Steven, the only solutions I can think of are build it or buy
it (if it's available, I never heard of anything like this).
I would design and build a low-level solution myself and test that with a
few users, if that works try and find somebody that can actually create a
pretty GUI around it and build it up from there.
As long as you are still using the BA client below it all and you only use
it for restores there isn't that much risk in it I think, I would go with
Powershell since you are doing the backup on Windows and it's capable stuff
and build something (that is very flexible) from there to later have
somebody code a webgui for.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Harris, Steven <
steven.harris AT btfinancialgroup DOT com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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> 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?
>
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