I have a problem, and will stick my neck out and ask the group if anyone has tried this, or has a solution.
We have an 'appliance' that runs a 'BSD type' OS, which will soon be connected to our HP EVA 5000 storage array (SAN). I need to figure out a way to backup a snapshot image of the volume with TSM. Our first attempt, connecting a Solaris box to the SAN, exposing the snapshot to it, then performing a 'dsmc backup image /dev/dsk/xxxxxxxx' failed with an 'open error'. I also tried it with -imagetype=dynamic, but I assume it is failing because the TSM client is trying to recognize it as a Solaris disk volume. Format can see the partitions on the volume, but complains that the label is invalid (as one would expect). Our next attempt will be with a Linux OS, or a BSD variant, but I am wondering whether my idea is dead out of the gate. I was hoping that 'image' might mean, 'I don't care, I'm just dumping bits'. Has anyone tried this? Is there anything out there that might work, or am I totally wasting my time? How to we backup raw images from a SAN or NAS using TSM without NDMP? thanks in advance! Bob Booth UIUC