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Using TSM at Home

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Mag0007

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Feb 15, 2005
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Anyone using TSM at home/personal use? I am curious, and I am planning to use it myself.

 
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
 
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? :)
 
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
 
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
 
Haha! Thats funny!
I was looking for hints like that :)

 
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

 
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.
 
I am up and running thanks :)

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