We are using TSM and are moderately happy with it. The TSM server runs on z/OS and was originally purchased to back up zOS USS. The client runs on the linux servers. It's moderately fast to our zOS virtual tapes and is relatively simple to use. We may add the Oracle table backup piece.
Byzantine pricing model is right. We had a meeting with ourselves, our buyers, our IBM SE, the local IBM reps, the local Tivoli reps, the regional Tivoli sales manager, and a national Vice President of Tivoli on the phone, all at the same time. We spent four hours trying to figure out what the price was and no one could figure out how to price it for a zOS server, zVM with two IFLs and about fifty linux guests and several hundred linux users. After four hours or so, one of the Tivoli reps just said, "Let's just guess that this is how it works and write the contract this way." So, even Tivoli can't figure out how to price their own stuff. "Christmas is a funny season. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?" Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Mark Post > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Friday, December 9, 2005 9:42 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Backup clients > > I only have experience with one: TSM. It works but I'm loathe to recommend > it, however, because of Tivoli's Byzantine pricing model, and their horrid > attitude towards users of mainframe operating systems in general. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Kenneth Libutti > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Backup clients > > > We are looking into a new Enterprise Backup solution. Since we now have > SuSE on s390, what are the recommendations for a backup client for our > Linux guests? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
