[OpenAFS-devel] Openafs Cell Backup

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:16:18 -0800


Christopher D Clausen <cclausen@acm.org> writes:
> Deon George <deon@wurley.net> wrote:

>> It would be great if there was a AFS aware TSM client - (especially if
>> they included the client in the openafs source - that called the TSM
>> API). If I knew anything about coding in C/C++ I'd have a go at it, but
>> its beyond my skills.

> Uhh, there is an AFS aware TSM client.  It only runs on AIX 4.3 or 5.1 
> though.
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/AIX/AIX43/v517/IP22750.tivoli.tsm.client.afs.aix43.32bit

> You can copy the binaries to AIX 5.3 and have it work as well.

Note that, unfortunately, IBM officially doesn't support this any more and
has warned that they're going to break the API that it uses in a future
release of TSM.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>