Lisa, my file server used to be clustered, have compressed drives, and used TSM baclient 5.5 for incremental and image backups and restores without issue. We have since virtualized it and it is no longer clustered. The drives are still compressed and we are still using TSM baclient 5.5 for both incremental and image backups and restore without issue.
I think the only thing I would caution you about is be weary of how much disk space you have left vs. how much you are trying to compress. I've seen drives fill during a compress operation because there is not enough free space to hold (temporarily) both the original and compressed version of the file(s) during the compress operation. You'll probably be fine; but, I just wanted to mention it. Ray -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laughlin, Lisa Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] MS Server 2003, cluster & running out of space...Compression & TSM baclient Good Morning TSMers! We are running really low on space on our clustered user drive. I was thinking we could do the MS compression on the entire drive to get some space till we move to DFS on 2008. One of my co-workers said that the reason that this hasn't already been tried is that there is some kind of issue with TSM-either the backups or the restores "don't work right". I am unable to confirm/deny issue via Google... Anyone have anything definitive on this? Point me where to hunt for documentation?? I'm not coming across anything on IBM's Tivoli portal, and the issue doesn't ring any bells for me. thanks! lisa w:573.751.1206 c:573.230.9290 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
