I'm backing up AIX, Netware & NT/2000 to 1 AIX server. Also Exchange & MS SQL. I set up the domains for each OS because of the retentions & requirements of my users. So I think you need to look at the whole picture & figure out which way will work best for you & be the easiest for you to manage...... Just my 2 cents.... For whatever that is worth!
--------------------------------------- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (954) 987-2020 x4597 Fax: (954) 985-1404 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mr. Lindsay Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same server? Well, IMHO: Just because you CAN have lots of different domains does NOT mean that you SHOULD. For simplicity's sake, many sites can have ONE domain and ONE schedule that will work OK for most nodes. I don't think you need to be concerned about NT users accidentally restoring AIX stuff - they have to try pretty hard (using VIRTUALNODENAME, etc) to have one machine recover another machine's files. If you want to separate includes and excludes by OS, you should use client option sets for that, not domains. Where you MIGHT want to start breaking stuff into different domains is when you have legal or technical retention policies: like, 7-year-legal requirement here, keep-many-versions for the developers there, etc. This is because the most important thing you get by putting a client node into a domain is a default POLICY, ie how many versions and how many days to retain files. (You can overide the default policy, of course, by using a different management class for the node, or even a directory or filename pattern on the node, in the include-exclude list.) So you could have: Node OS Dept Domain Cloptset ordinary NT Acct STANDARD NTOPTS acctarchive WinXP Acct 7YEAR XPOPTS newsystem AIX Acct DEVEL AIXOPTS oldspecs NT Engineering 7YEAR NTOPTS joespc WinXP Engineering STANDARD XPOPTS geniuspc Solaris Engineering DEVEL SOLOPTS and so on. > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Robert L. Rippy > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same > server? > > > True. > > > > > > From: "Hagopian, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/09/2002 12:22 > PM > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: Re: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same > server? > > I guess the same would be for the users so the Win restore people > wouldn't touch the AIX stuff? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert L. Rippy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same > server? > > > There is no problem. I have NT,W2K, 95/98 MAC AIX all going to once > server. Just plan correctly so that its managable. I would suggest > seperate domains. > > Thanks, > Robert Rippy. > > > > > From: "Hagopian, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/09/2002 12:04 > PM > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: > Subject: What is the game plan for mixing clients on the same server? > > I have been running TSM for all my AIX boxes...now I will be moving > all Windows boxes to TSM as well...excited about doing this (yeah yeah > yeah) but after thinking about it, would it be better to put all the > Win boxes > (2k,NT) > to their own TSM server? > What are the issues...if any...for having 40 or so Win boxes sharing > the same TSM db and server with 15 large AIX boxes... > > TIA > George Hagopian > > PS I also posted this message online forum...not sure what kind of > hits it is getting >
