[Veritas-bu] Datacenter versus TSM
2003-03-13 06:22:07
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Chase [mailto:vaxzilla AT jarai DOT org]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:22 PM
>To: David A. Chapa
>Cc: Dan Chrastil; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Datacenter versus TSM
>The staging pools of TSM are something I miss very, very, very
>much. I'd could have hundreds of clients streaming data into
>my TSM server and it'd all be consolidated in the staging
>pools before being streamed onto tape. If you've a lot little
>backups coming from different clients, the TSM disk staging
>features will keep the data flowing at a very high rate.
Stop. Please. You'll have me crying, looking back to the good old days.
>My overall opinion is that TSM is a much better product than
>NetBackup from a technical standpoint, but they made a few
>significant design decisions which I find unacceptable from
>the practical standpoint. The first one is that they store
>tape data in a proprietary format, the second is that you
>can't recover any data without having TSM running and your TSM
>database loaded. One consequence of this is that TSM isn't
In reality, I don't see how this is much different to Netbackup. Multiplexed
tapes are useless outside Netbackup.
>helpful in cases where you need to data tapes with external
>organizations; it also makes using TSM as part of an
>archiving solution not terribly workable.
It does kind of lock you in.
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Colin Smith
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