April 10, 2006
Storage Management Services™ (SMS) is an API framework that applications consume in order to provide a complete backup solution on OES NetWare® and OES Linux. Some important properties of this framework include:
The SMS framework is implemented by two main components - Storage Management Data Requestor (SMDR) and Target Service Agent (TSA). SMDR defines the API framework and the TSA provides an implementation of the API for a particular target.
The SMS NDK package comprises of:
SMS NDK has a dependency on the SMS product rpm.
Download the novell-sms rpm from SMS Developer Components and install it.
# rpm -ivh novell-sms-1.1.4-13.i586.rpm
Installing the rpm copies the binaries into /opt/novell/sms/bin, the libraries into /opt/novell/lib and the scripts into /etc/init.d.
Start the SMDR daemon by giving the following command:
# /etc/init.d/novell-smdrd start
The file system target service tsafs is autoloaded by smdrd, to load other TSAs or configure TSAs use options provided by smsconfig.
Any backup application that uses SMS can now be run.
NOTE:
In order to build the Demonstration Engine sample on NetWare, NLM and NetWare Libraries for C (including CLIB and XPlat) has to be downloaded and installed.
To build backup applications with Libraries for C (LibC), download it from NDK download site.
To start SMS on NetWare 5.1, execute the following commands:
load smdr
load tsa500
To start SMS on NetWare 6.5, execute the following commands:
load smdr
load tsafs
For more information about SMS you can access the following documentation resources:
Refer to Demo Engine How To on Linux, for details on the Demo Engine sample for Linux.
Refer to TSATEST readme for Linux, for details on the TSATEST sample for Linux.
For a discussion on SMS, a newsgroup is available at: news://developer-forums.novell.com/novell.devsup.sms
The following sample programs display some of the features of SMS:
The Demonstration Engine (DE) is a sample that demonstrates the uses SMS API to perform simple backup and restore operations. The sample provides a very primitive implementation of a backup application with a view to present concepts and familiarize the developer on usage of SMS API. It also provides an implementation of new features discussed in this developer release to supplement the documentation.
For more information, refer demoengine.html, (for NetWare) and demoengine_linux.html (for Linux) that ships in this developer release.
TSATEST is a utility that reads data sets from a target, and then discards them. This, in effect, is equivalent to a backup system that has an infinite capacity, high performing tape sub-system. TSATEST can thus be used to benchmark backup application performance. TSATEST can also be used to troubleshoot hardware and software bottlenecks.
TSATEST is available as part of the developer kit along with its source which can be treated as the recommended implementation for achieving high performance. For more information, refer tsatest.html (for NetWare) and tsatest_linux.html (for Linux) that ships in this developer release.
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