Works for us.... We back up 20-25 small NT based nodes scattered around the
Washington D.C. area to a larger site in Gaithersburg Md. They are all T1
connections. We run with client compression on and overall average about 1
GB per hour on a single T1. Again not something you would want to do for a
larger node but for a small office with one or two servers it beats dealing
with a local backups and ensuring that someone is doing the tape
mount/unmount work reliably.
Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:50 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
