Jeff,

NDMP support is meant to be available at the end of this month.
That they haven't set pricing information for this yet makes me
wonder if it will actually be available any time soon. I'm
skeptical, but hopeful, as we've several TB of NetApp storage in
our environment.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jeff Bach wrote:

>IBM people,
>
>                How does IBM/Tivoli plan to provide for this need in order
>to prevent customer from being required to implement hardware vendor
>solutions such as EDM to backup this data?   The competition is direct fiber
>attaching to the data and backing it up.
>
>
>Jeff Bach
>Home Office Open Systems Engineering
>Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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>        -----Original Message-----
>        From:   Michael Bartl [SMTP:michael.bartl AT CW DOT COM]
>        Sent:   Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:01 AM
>        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>        Subject:        Re: Backup of EMC
>
>        Mahesh,
>        on NAS boxes like CLARiiON or NETAPP you won't find a backup/archive
>        client that runs directly on the machine.
>        To get your backup done just use another machine in your LAN that
>has
>        enough network bandwith available to both the NAS box and the TSM
>        server.
>        On WinNT you can use the UNC-Name in dsm.opt:
>        DOMAIN  \\NASBOX\SHARE
>
>        With Unix you have to define a mountpoint for the tree you want to
>        backup. Then you put the mountpoint into your optionfile.
>
>        Good luck,
>        Michael Bartl
>
>        Office of Technology, IT Germany/Austria
>        Cable & Wireless Deutschland GmbH.
>        Landsberger Str. 155            Tel.: +49 89 92699-806
>        80687 Muenchen                  Fax.: +49 89 92699-302
>        mailto:michael.bartl AT cw DOT com     http://www.de.cw.com
>
>        Mahesh Tailor wrote:
>        >
>        > Hello, everyone.
>        >
>        > A group in our department just received an EMC CLARiiON system.
>On this system is a filesystem that I need to backup.  How can this be done?
>I have never dealt with this beast.
>        >
>        > 3466 Network Storage Manager running TSM v3.7.4 and AIX 4.3.2.
>        >
>        > Thanks for any help and advice in advance.
>        >
>        > Mahesh Tailor
>        > WAN/NetView/TSM Administrator
>        > Carilion Health System
>        > Voice: 540-224-3929
>        > Fax: 540-224-3954
>
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