>I am quite disappointed by the TSM software performance. ... Have you looked at the suggestions under "Backup performance" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts ? Two classic causes of performance problems are misconfigured networking and virus protection software. File system topology and network loading are also substantial factors. How long does it take a native W2000 file system scanning utility to traverse the file system? (File systems with thousands of files in one directory are A Bad Idea.) How long does it take a client running on the TSM server to perform a backup without networking? Have you pursued the items in the Performance Tuning Guide? You have to break down the factors and examine each. Blame TSM only if you ultimately find the sluggisness to be caused by TSM. But you have to do the basic systems analysis to isolate performance factors in your mix.
Richard Sims, BU
