I admined GW For about 9 years, and the best overall for TSM is St. Bernard's OFM. The GWBackup utility creates an exact copy of your Post Office to another location, but that adds Admin overhead. The GWTSA would work great if IBM would get off their butt and support it. Then GW Becomes just another file system, only messages, sort of like the tsands did for NDS.
Set your opt file just like you would any other TSM NetWare client, and install St. Bernard to handle the open files. I've done restores after this kind of backup, and if the backup was complete, the restore always worked. Make sure you exclude the wpsin and wpsout type folders, as TSM will complain. I don't have a copy of all the excludes handy. The main folders to make *sure* you get are the ofuser, ofmsg, offile, and the post office db files. See Ya' Howard -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Groupwise on Netware Server On possibility for your to look at is GWBACKUP... http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/ana19991005.html http://www.novell.com/documentation/gw55/index.html?page=/documentation/ gw55/gw55mnt/data/a3n60nr.html GWBACKUP will allow you to dump the data to flat files. You can then use the TSM Backup-Archive client to send and store those files on the TSM Server. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 02/05/2008 11:31:42 AM: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any information on backing up a Groupwise mailserver > on > Netware(6.5 SP6) using a TSM server (AIX). IBM have stated that the best I > can hope for is a fuzzy backup. Not really a good selling point when I'm > trying to provide a single backup solution to the company. I keep finding > references to St Bernards Open File Manager but need more info on how this > would work. > > Any advice, opt file examples, configurations or tech papers > gratefully received. > > Cheers > > Jim
