As Dwight mentioned, the problem isn't backup it's restore. As long as you
have some plan in place for the big restore you should be OK. Onesy twosy
file restores will be fine, but what happens if you lose the entire disk?
The best plan for that is to rebuild the disk at the central site and
overnight it to the remote site. Downtime is at worst case 36 hours or so.
Can you live with that? Remember, this is worst case: drive failure or
massive corruption. Minimize the chances by using RAID at the remote site
and have a plan for when it does happen.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313
(719) 531-5926
Fax: (240) 539-7175
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com
www.storserver.com
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Cook, Dwight E
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
