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List:       adsm-l
Subject:    Re: Restoring from really old TSM clients
From:       Bill Smoldt <smoldt () STORSERVER ! COM>
Date:       2016-07-27 20:54:34
Message-ID: 79C252FD-8BEF-4268-B6E0-B5442B7EE0BB () storserver ! com
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I don't know if it's of interest to you, Zoltan, but I keep a demo VM of WFW3.11 \
around with an ADSM 2.1.0.8 client.  I backup and restore it using a TSM 7.1.6.0 \
server with deduplicated container pools with no problem.  It's fun to show this to \
prospects to demonstrate unsupported compatibility.  I'd restore C: and make another \
drive bootable if I could remember how to make one show up in File Manager.

The WFW also runs AOL Instant messenger and I can log onto my old AOL user account.

Browsing with Netscape Navigator doesn't work well on any website so I'm not going \
back to WFW as my desktop any time soon.

___________________________
Bill Smoldt

From: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> on behalf of Zoltan Forray \
                <zforray@VCU.EDU>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 1:10 PM
To: "ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: [ADSM-L] Restoring from really old TSM clients

I have a user who wants to archive their old Solaris SPARC system before
killing it, and keep the archives for 5-years.

This is a Solaris 5.9 system so the most current client is v5.5.

I am about to upgrade my servers to 7.1.6 (from 6.3.5.100). What are the
chances the archives will be restore/retrieve-able in 5-years when SP V10
or 11 is the server level?

This isn't our oldest client.  There are 2-Solaris 5.8 servers with 5.3
client still backing up.  Until last year, we still had a 4.x client.

How do you handle long-term archiving (yes I realize 5-years really isn't
that long) or discontinued/decommissioned servers?

What is the largest gap between client and server version that someone has
successfully restored/retrieved data from?

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*Zoltan Forray*
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