OnBar & ISM

Posted in 2004

SUE SIMMONDS — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:11:18 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

I am currently running On-Archive and am looking to migrate to OnBar & ISM. All the comments about On-Archive suggest it ought to be avoided at all cost as it is far too complicated but it has been set up here and works like a treat. With On-Archive the backup command issued contained among other things the name of the volume set to be used. All our backup tapes are labelled servername_day_weeknumber, eg hpserver1_mon_1. If the incorrect tape was loaded the archive would fail. Is there similar functionality with OnBar/ISM ??? Or does ISM just use whatever tape is mounted ? Sue

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Martin Fuerderer — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:11:19 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi, with ON-Bar and ISM you even have a so-called "Expiration Policy" that you can configure (although for that you need to use the underlying "nsr..." commands of ISM. (After all ISM is a storage manager, based on Legato Networker, albeit an older version of it and some limitations of functionality.) So with the wrong tape in place, ISM would reject it. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Data Management Solutions forum.subscriber@iiug.org wrote on 18.11.2004 17:11:18: > I am currently running On-Archive and am looking to migrate to OnBar & ISM. > > All the comments about On-Archive suggest it ought to be avoided at all cost as it is far too complicated but it has been set up here and works like a treat. > > With On-Archive the backup command issued contained among other things the name of the volume set to be used. All our backup tapes are labelled servername_day_weeknumber, eg hpserver1_mon_1. > > If the incorrect tape was loaded the archive would fail. > > Is there similar functionality with OnBar/ISM ??? > > Or does ISM just use whatever tape is mounted ? > > > Sue

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Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:24:42 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

> > I am currently running On-Archive and am looking to migrate > to OnBar & ISM. > > All the comments about On-Archive suggest it ought to be > avoided at all cost as it is far too complicated but it has > been set up here and works like a treat. > Don't expect OnBar/ISM too be less complicated :-) I'm a friend of On-Archive, too - and of ondatartr for backing up logical logs. But the problem is: From IDS 9.30 onwards you don't get the On-Archive programs any more. > With On-Archive the backup command issued contained among > other things the name of the volume set to be used. All our > backup tapes are labelled servername_day_weeknumber, eg > hpserver1_mon_1. > > If the incorrect tape was loaded the archive would fail. > > Is there similar functionality with OnBar/ISM ??? > > Or does ISM just use whatever tape is mounted ? > I'm no OnBar expert. But OnBar/ISM seems to handle these things pretty well - unless you want to do something 'special', e.g. not to restore from the latest backups to the original location. Regards, Andreas Kutsche

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cberner99@juno.com — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:16:45 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

I have used ISM to Disk and have learned that ISA 1.50 is a nice tool to set up when you configure ISM to backup to tape or Disk. Carl Berner

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