[776] in athena10
Re: IS&T should support Ubuntu for TSM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Jan 6 15:01:28 2009
Cc: Jacob Morzinski <morzinski@mit.edu>, mitchb@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu,
wdc@mit.edu, linux-tsm-release@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200901051749.n05HnmrC012177@dit.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:00:18 -0500
In addition to this, on my list of things to do at the moment is to
provide a TSM Debian package. I don't have a timeframe for this yet,
but I think it's probably the right thing to do, as opposed to using
alien to convert the RPMs.
We should probably decide (at release team tomorrow) how important
this is and where it falls on the list of things to do.
-Jon
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
>> 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
