Hi,

We have an unsupported filesystem that we backup with TSM, very simple:

- Export all ext3, XFS filesystems over NFS to address 127.0.0.1
- Mount these filesystems in loopback: mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/ /tsm/root
.....
- Backup these Filesystems with NFS

On 08.01.2002 19:07:46 Linux on 390 Port wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, the Tivoli Storage Manager client does not work with
> > Ext3 on ANY architecture. Does anyone know if a fix for this is
available
> > or even being worked on?
>
> Unless the TSM client knows about the internal disk layout of ext3 (in
which
> case it will probably break with ext2 at some point in the future in
arbitary
> and undefined ways) then there should be no problems.
>
> Ext3 stores the same attributes and data as ext2 in the same manner, it
> simply journals the updates. That means that any properly written backup
tool
> which is either portable or ext2 specific should continue to work
beautifully
> unless it goes looking around on raw disk. In the latter case its already
> broken.
>
> Alan

Mit freundlichen Gr��en,

           Frank Warzecha
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