TSM client to a z/OS TSM server works very well for file-level backups. Our Disaster Recovery backups are still done from outside the Linux server while the Linux server is NOT logged on. We already had TSM server on our OS/390-z/OS system so it was nothing to add our Linux workload. As we add more and more Oracle databases (GBs of database backed up every night), the load on the z/OS TSM will increase but z/OS based TSM is the basis for all file-level recovery in our environment.
/Tom Kern /301-903-2211 --------------Original Message------------- From: Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: tape backups Assuming the TSM server is on Linux or on another distributed system. If it's on z/OS, channel-attached drives work just fine. Caveat emptor: Just because you have z/OS in-house, don't *assume* your z/OS folks are willing to pick up that kind of workload. An analysis of the increased CPU requirements would have to be performed and weighed against the costs of integration into your SCSI/FCP tape ecosystem (that does assume you have one to integrate into!). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
