Using TSM at Home

[Mag0007]

Anyone using TSM at home/personal use? I am curious, and I am planning to use it myself.

 

[p5wizard]

As soon as I clear the basement to put in an STK silo...

But seriously, planning it myself, with an AIX/TSM server on an old RS6K box I acquired.

Plan to setup a disk pool for periodic backups, then weekly or so manual backup of the disk pool to a 4mm or 8mm tapedrive. Depends on what I can get my hands on. An auto-library would be nice, but I guess I can do without it.



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Mag0007]

p5wizard:

Nice to hear from you again! You pulled me from many fires

Yah, I was thinking of something like that too, but for my copy pool, I would just disk too, but on a weekly basis, whatever volume changed (find /adsm_copy/vols -ctime 7) will be emailed to me as an attached. (gmail)

How does that plan sound?

 

[comtec17]

contact me for a STK 9730 Tape Library that I have to give up with 2 DLT 7000 Drives. Only one drive works and the other drive can be replaced with low cost. Can hold up to 4 drives. It has a barcode reader. Send me a note for pictures and price (I promise, super low).

comtec17 at carolina dot rr dot com

 

[hogmaster01]

Hi I am actually running a tsm server on my desktop with 1 client. Backup media is a nas disk 250GB. Running wireless.
Backing up the tsmdb as well.
Will not help if a major disaster strikes but will help against theft(maybe) and user misstakes
Just remember to use file device class for nas.
/regards Daniel

 

[Mag0007]

Haha! Thats funny!
I was looking for hints like that

 

[ProbablyDown]

Are you going to send your volumes offsite? ;-)

 

[hogmaster01]

I had a disk crash!
The data was still readable but the boot sector will not hold any boot information. Very strange. I can reinstall the os, I can read the files from both partitions but it will not boot.
After salvaging some last minute files I repartitioned and did a NTFS format (not quick). The same problem is still there. Downloaded the SEATOOL from seagate. The tests confirmed that the drive was broken and could not hold metadata.
I got a replacement drive (uppgraded to SATA).
Then I restored the OS with CBMR and the data with TSM!
It works.

Offiste volume handling, not yet . Simpleshare NAS devices has the ability to attach external USB drives (My ipod mini) so it is possible

/regards Daniel

 

[Mag0007]

Homaster:

Cool! I hope it works out for you.

I wonder if there are any offsite services. You know if its possible to create CD/DVD, using standard CD/DVD recorders.

 

[hogmaster01]

I am up and running thanks

check DEFINE DEVCLASS -- REMOVABLEFILE in the admin interface.
use maxcap=650 for a cd...
/regards Daniel