Well some people apparently completely *don’t* understand the use of a backup client like dsmc, additionally they don’t seem to have the slightest clue on how to draw up a “clever” backup solution.
Lemme describe the situation for you. We do have two Solaris systems at work, housing our mailing system(s). Now apparently, people are unable to install the Tivoli Storage Manager Client on Solaris (or get it working properly – which people are blaming on the software not working).
Now, they draw up this insane plan … We do have about 900GiB of mail space, which is currently located on our SAN. So people decide, they don’t want the backup client on their system, as it’s slow (which I do agree to, dsmc is *slow* for large amounts of data – especially if it’s 900GiB in 15MiB parts).
So they think of something like this:
- Attach a second disk to the mail system
- The mail server then creates a tar file (at which iteration I can’t say, but from the size of the volume, I’d figure once a day) on the secondary disk
- The mail server exports said disk via NFS
- Another, semi-independent system then imports said disk via NFS, while also housing the Tivoli Storage Manager client, to backup that big tar-file …
So much for *well* planned backup solutions ……… 😆