Mark,
I was testing HP's Ultrium 230 External tape drive on a Compaq Proliant
server. The local OS recognized the drive and I could do a local backup and
restore using NT Backup (Just testing of course!). We have another single
external IBM LTO connected to our TSM server (AIX). What I wanted was the
ability to create a backset at the server to the locally attached LTO drive.
Then I could take this portable media to an NT server with a locally
attached LTO drive and using the TSM Windows client perform a restore from
the Locally attached LTO drive. But appears that the new LTO drives are not
a supported Tape device for performing this task, here is an excerpt from
the 4.1.2.12 docs.
The backup set is usually stored on media like tape, CD-ROMs, JAZ disks, or
ZIP disks. These tape devices are supported: DLT, 4mm, 8mm, 3590, and 3570.
Bruce E. Lowrie
Sr. Systems Analyst
Global Information Technology Services
Storage, Output, Legacy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows Client Support of LTO drives
Bruce Lowrie wrote:
>Yes I know the SERVER supports it but I am not finding any support for the
>Windows client. This way I could use an external drive to do Backup Set
>restores.
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Yes, it should , I have a LTO 3580 on my W2K advance server with TSM
4.1.2
> .
>
>>From: Bruce Lowrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Does anyone have any information on when the Windows Client will support
>>>local LTO drives to perform Backup set restores? I was hoping that
4.1.2.12
>>>had it but it does not....
The TSM Windows client doesn't have to talk to the LTO drive. When you
attempt to run a restore from a backupset accessed from a
locally-attached drive, the client talks to the LTO drive through the
OS. You need to look at the tape driver's documentation to get details
about compatibility with W2K.
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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