Hello everyone, We have similar situation and questions...
We also have a T1 line for doing Monthly Archival Full backups that take 6 full days to complete (line is completely saturated during this time), if all of the daily changes are not too large which shares this line also. The line is dedicated to TSM backups/restores. What I was thinking for speed of backups and being able to certify that every backup happens quickly and completely every night is to setup a second TSM server that would backup at that location to a virtual tape library then trickle those changes to the main site to tapes or to the san at that main site and then to tape. Is this possible or a valid solution? We are also running TSM 5.3.4 and all clients are current with 5.3.4. Possibility of adding more bandwidth i.e. T2 or greater is good. Which is better more bandwidth or a second TSM server? Can TSM servers work together to get backups done, kind of like a load balanced Backup? Thank You, Dan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email "This email message and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the American Board of Family Medicine immediately -- by replying to this message or by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not the intended recipient, you must immediately destroy all copies of this message and any attachments without reading or disclosing their contents. Thank you. For more information regarding the American Board of Family Medicine, please visit us at https://www.theabfm.org/."; -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archives across Wan Best practices On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Hayden, Mark wrote: > Hi All, just wanted to be pointed in the right direction to find > information on best practices on Archives across the T1 WAN? We are > having trouble finishing monthly archives on weekends running > normal Archives. I have tried to talk with upper management about > getting rid of Archives, but no go. We are running TSM 5.3.4 with > older versions of clients up to 5.3.4. Please advise Thanks Mark - Exactly what is trying to be achieved? It kinda sounds like they are trying to perform what amounts to a full backup over what was a high- speed link in 1962, based upon old-thinking full+incremental backups. TSM Incremental may supply what they actually need; otherwise, client compression would be the best they could probably do with the networking they have and approach they are trying to use. We could advise better if we had more information. Richard Sims
