Thanks Billl, Never had the need for or thought about it before, but was thinking about it the context of the question posed the other day where one site was providing backup services for another and there was a request by the client to have a copy of the (assumed most recent) backups provided for onsite storage ( and assumed restores).
Overall it seems a lot of time intensive and manual overhead doing that, particularly if the client is Windows with a CD/DVD and the TSM server is on AIX. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients
If you have a stand-alone SCSI tape drive, attach that to the TSM server, define it and then generate the backupset to that devclass. Or what about creating a FILE devclass with the with a MAXCAPACITY of either the CD size or DVD if you're using that. Then FTP them over to a Windows box to burn the CD/DVD. Just make sure to use BINary transfer mode. I've heard of people doing that. Bill Boyer "Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ?? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: generating backupsets for Windows clients It does seem the only practical way to use the backupsets is when the server and client are on the same platform, or at least windows server/windows client and unix server/unix client. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard van Denzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:48 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients Hi Larry, I know there is a problem with Unicode (Windows) and non-Unicode (AIX). I've restored a Windows client on AIX and after that nothing could be done anymore with the AIX client, because it's type got changed to Unicode. So I think your conclusion might be right. Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Clark Sent: 12 October 2007 13:09 To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] generating backupsets for Windows clients I've read the following comment in the TSM admin manual: "Software for writing CDs may not work consistently across platforms." I conclude that it is not practical to generate a backupset on an AIX server and use that CD on a windows client. Anyone ever done that?
