UNC Linux Users Group

["Alan Hoyle" <alanh AT email.unc.edu>]

For those of you who have seen this before, I've corrected a couple of
errors in it.

I recently built up a linux box using Ubuntu and discovered that it's
not hard to set it up to use the TSM backup client.  Assuming you have
a passing familiarity with setting up TSM on RPM-based distributions,
here are the basic steps:

1. Install the "alien" package which lets you (among other things)
install RPM packages on Ubuntu or other Debian-based distros.

    $ sudo apt-get install alien

2.  download the TSM client software from IBM using your web browser.

3.  untar the TSM RPMs...

4.  Use alien to install the appropriate RPMs.

    $ sudo alien -i --scripts TIVsm-API.i386.rpm TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm

5.  Set up the normal TSM configuration (dsm.opt, dsm.sys, inclexcl.dsm).

6.  Run a manual backup.

     $ sudo dsmc incremental

7.  open port 1501 to the backup server in your firewall.

8.  Ubuntu uses Upstart instead of inittabs.  To add dsm to the
configuration, create a /etc/event.d/dsm-sched file containing:

-----------------------  /etc/event.d/dsm-sched -----------------------
# dsm-sched
#
# This service starts the Tivoli Storage Manager "dsmc sched" backup
# process and respawns it as the scheduled backup happens or the
# dsmc process gets killed or dies.

start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /usr/bin/dsmc sched >/dev/null 2>&1
-----------------------  end /etc/event.d/dsm-sched 
----------------------------

9.  Start the dsmc sched process

     $ sudo start dsm-sched

10.  Check to see if the /var/log/dsmsched.log is correct.

     $ tail /var/log/dsmsched.log

06/29/07   13:33:13 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END
06/29/07   13:33:13 Next operation scheduled:
06/29/07   13:33:13 
------------------------------------------------------------
06/29/07   13:33:13 Schedule Name:         AM0230
06/29/07   13:33:13 Action:                Incremental
06/29/07   13:33:13 Objects:
06/29/07   13:33:13 Options:
06/29/07   13:33:13 Server Window Start:   02:30:00 on 06/30/07
06/29/07   13:33:13 
------------------------------------------------------------
06/29/07   13:33:13 Waiting to be contacted by the server.


11.  If you wish to use the dsmj GUI, you must also install a Java
runtime environment.  There are several of these available, and JREs
are backwards compatible.

  $ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin

Note that the dsmj seems to want to run with root permissions.  To run it, 
use:

  $ sudo dsmj


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