These are not desirable features: they are required features for their product since they have to do full backups periodically and TSM does not. In addition, we will exclude winword.exe and never back it up ( why would you backup that file? If you needed to fix Winword, use the CD, not backup/restore). In fact, the best case scenario has TSM excluding everything on the desktop except for My Documents. Have the users put the files they want backed up in the that directory. I know, I know, users don't want to do that! Tough? Ok then, how about we backup files with specific extensions? .doc, .xls, etc.
I know of a large site > 30,0000 nodes successfully using TSM. They move between 5-10 MB per night/per system. Works like a charm. 10 TSM servers handling this load. One must always remember that a feature is often a cover up for some other problem. In the case of the one you describe, they need while we don't. We can exclude files and we only do incrementals. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen A. Cochran Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF I'm not an expert with ADSM, but does ADSM have any of the advanced features that this article talked about? Can it back up a file only once for all the computers that have a copy of it? Or will it back up Winword.exe 5000 times for my whole organization? We're starting to look at what it will take to offer backup for the entire campus, and some of these advanced features would be desirable. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College
