Do any of you use Avamar to backup AS400 ? what should I be aware of when my customer asks me to give some advise to backup his AS400 ? Maybe another product ? What would you do ?
> Do any of you use Avamar to backup AS400 ? No, as far as I know, it is not supported actually in Avamar's matrix.
> what should I be aware of when my customer asks me to give some advise to backup his AS400 ? Probably there is a workarounds how to map hard drives on another machine using NFS or whatever ... then backup it with Avamar ....
URL: http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys/part4os400.pdf << snip >> Communications. The AS/400 communicates with other computers—mainframes, PCs, other AS/400s, and non-IBM minis—better than any past or present IBM computer. It can communicate with other computers using protocols such as Ethernet, SNA, OSI, ISDN, TCP/IP, Novell NetWare, and others. It can support connections to three different Local Area Networks at once.
Since SUSE linux enterprise server have support for Novell NetWare ... it might be some statement how to access drives ...
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> Do any of you use Avamar to backup AS400 ?
No, as far as I know, it is not supported actually in Avamar's matrix.
> what should I be aware of when my customer asks me to give some advise to backup his AS400 ?
Probably there is a workarounds how to map hard drives on another machine using NFS or whatever ... then backup it with Avamar ....
URL: http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys/part4os400.pdf
<< snip >>
Communications. The AS/400 communicates with other computers—mainframes, PCs, other AS/400s, and non-IBM minis—better than any past or present IBM computer. It can communicate with other computers using protocols such as Ethernet, SNA, OSI, ISDN, TCP/IP, Novell NetWare, and others. It can support connections to three different Local Area Networks at once.
Since SUSE linux enterprise server have support for Novell NetWare ... it might be some statement how to access drives ...
>Maybe another product ?
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/tag/as400-backup/
hope this helps ...
Rej