> I have on my mind to look at tsmafs... I had thought, tho, that that was
> making use of the TSM api.

Note also that all of these various options mentioned make use of the *archive* 
portion of TSM, not the more usual backup setup that is used for most TSM 
storage engines. Your TSM admin has to take some specific steps to support 
archiving. and implement appropriate management classes for archive storage. 
It's not hard to do, but it's not something you as an end user can do so you 
need to let them know if you start tinkering with this. The default TSM setup 
doesn't allow for much more than trivial archive functionality to allow the TSM 
installation verification program to run.

You may encounter some resistance from your TSM admins. Archive management 
semantics are somewhat different than backup server-side, and some TSM admins 
don't like the clutter associated with heavy use of archiving.

The XBSA documentation is available at 
http://archive.opengroup.org/publications/archive/CDROM/c425.pdf. It's pretty 
straightforward to implement, so it wouldn't be terribly hard to revive a 
vendor-independent implementation. 
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