[771] in athena10
Re: IS&T should support Ubuntu for TSM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Jan 5 12:51:02 2009
Message-Id: <200901051749.n05HnmrC012177@dit.mit.edu>
To: Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@MIT.EDU>
cc: mitchb@MIT.EDU, athena10@MIT.EDU, wdc@MIT.EDU, linux-tsm-release@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:13:13 EST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:49:48 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>One awkwardness is that the TSM vendor (IBM) does not support
>TSM on Ubuntu.
Right.
>It will be hard to get IS&T to officially support a software
>confuguration that the vendor does not.
I agree that the point that Ubuntu is the basis for Athena 10, and TSM
is the only official backup solution at MIT is a significant one.
>It might be possible to write "unsupported" documentation that
>describes how to configure TSM on Ubuntu
I've been working on this and have a draft ready. I'm working with Bill to
decide how/when we will make this public.
>if TSM does work
It does- I've verified that.
Alex
