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Status Is a defect
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2012

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SNAPDIFF on Linux - CIFS mount support

We'd like to use a Linux client to back up our Netapp storage using CIFS mounts, using the new SNAPDIFF functionality. Currently the client doesn't seem to recognize the CIFS mount as a valid Netapp volume, so the SNAPDIFF backup fails.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 27, 2012

    Stephen, thanks for your comments, and we will clear up the documentation to get this closed.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 10, 2012

    OK, there's no business reason that *requires* this. We had a Linux box available and wanted to use it. I would point out that while NFS is a Windows add-on that usually requires buying a third party product, CIFS is a natively supported protocol on Linux, so it seems a little off not to support it. But, hey, ya can't do everything!

    Just clearing up the documentation so that there's no ambiguity about what's supported or not would be a good resolution.

    Thanks for looking at this.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 9, 2012

    :

    The way that the TSM Windows Backup-Archive client connects to a NetApp filer in order to provide SnapDiff function is through the CIFS protocol.  I am interested to know the business reason that you need to use Linux with CIFS as opposed to using Windows with CIFS or Linux with NFS, both are available today

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