Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

On 26/09/2020 12:58, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> 
> But I don't really know anything about the hardware or configuration
> that the law school is using, only that their chosen software is Tivoli
> Storage Manager.
> 
> 

TSM (now called Spectrum Protect) is IBM's proprietory storage handling 
system.  Typically it is integrated with the GPFS filesystem (now called 
Spectrum Scale).  TSM uses a database to keep track of where data has 
been moved to.  On top of TSM you can have an heirarchical starage 
solution (HSM), a backup and archiving solution (BAclient) and IIRC you 
can even write your oen application if you want to (masochists only).

The BAclient is fairly expensive, so what some places do is use an 
in-house or third-party application to back up remote machines to a 
central location, and then allow BAclient to backup the central dumps.

If your law school is using TSM, then the only use for Amanda would be 
to back up the small machines onto the central server, and then TSM can 
migrate (HSM) or backup to tape/slow disk.

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J Martin Rushton MBCS