The boxes range in size for 1G to 45G. But, the
amount of daily change is small. I really like the
idea of having the data here. That way, if we need to
we can rebuild the box here and take it to the remote site.
--David Nash
Systems Administrator
The GSI Group
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Backup of Remote Sites
> Client compression would be very helpful...
> How big are the boxes ? ? ?
> and a full restore would take time but the data would be there.
> I've backed up NT boxes from Atlanta GA into Tulsa OK (I'm pretty sure the
> nodes are still registered...)
> they run fine but my network speeds are a little better than what you've
> mentioned.
> Ya know... it wouldn't hurt to toss on the client and do an initial test and
> see.
> Worst case, you delete its data from the server and delete the client.
> Always a bottle neck somewhere :-(
>
> Dwight
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Backup of Remote Sites
>
>
> I have a question for all of the *SM/Network experts
> out there. We have a central office that we just
> started using TSM at. We also have several remote
> offices that are connected to central office via
> dedicated lines. Theses sites currently are running
> their own backups via NTBackup. We are concerned that
> these backups are unreliable/not offsite/not being done.
> The dedicated lines are mostly 256Kbs lines but a few
> are smaller. Is it a good idea to try to back up these
> sites across the WAN using *SM? We realize that the first
> backup would take a while, but after we suffer through that,
> the amount of changed data would be small. Is it a good
> idea in this case to turn on client compression? Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --David Nash
> Systems Administrator
> The GSI Group
>
>
