One of our TSM servers backs up approx. 350 Wintel desktops nightly, plus about 30 Windows & UNIX servers.
Our users keep their .pst files on their desktops, rather than on the fileserver. Our daily load has been growing steadily, doubling every year, and I determined that the biggest chunk of the growth was those .pst files. I turned on subfile backup last Nov. 1 for all our desktops via a client option set. I let it grab everything, not just the .pst files, and it has dropped my daily load by about 30%! Haven't had ANY problem with it. I tested extensively on .pst files of my own, and I haven't been able to break it. And we have successfully done 4 bare-metal restores since implementing it. I'm a happy camper! TSM 4.1.3 for AIX; all TSM clients are 4.2.0; desktops are WIn2K PRO SP1 & SP2. ************************************************************************ Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subfile Backup Experience Currently i have problems to backup a fileserver with many large pst files (Outlook) The incremental has to save nearly 25% of the whole data every night over a 2 MBit line. I wonder if it is a good idea to use subfilebackup feature only for pst Files with exclude.subfile "*" include.subfile "?:\...\*.pst" Does anyone has experience doing subfilebackup for fileservers? With Regards Stefan Holzwarth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Stefan Holzwarth ADAC e.V. (Informationsverarbeitung - Systemtechnik - Basisdienste) Am Westpark 8, 81373 München Tel.: (089) 7676-5212, Fax: (089) 76768924 mailto:\\[EMAIL PROTECTED]
