With respect to that: Say we have 500 10 GB PC's. Say they're 80% full. We back up the whole mess so we get 4 TB of data. That's only forty AIT3/LTO/SDLT tapes. In a large site that's nothing. And since we only do incrementals on these everyday, how long will it take and how much data will we move? Precious little.
So even if you have lots of clients and you backup way too much you're still not in much trouble! Paul is right: most of us will restore a PC from some corporate standard image and get the user's data back as a separate step. Doing a typical TSM bare metal restore on a user desktop? Not going to happen. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen A. Cochran Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:48 PM, Kelly Lipp wrote: > Right on. One would never back that stuff up in the first place so what > difference does having that feature make? Well, you'd be supprised how many people do back things like that up. I'm not saying I'm advocating it, but it happens. They want their entire hard drive backed up dammit, and that's what they'll get if they scream long enough. The proposal I've recommended is central document storage on some sort of SAN/NAS, and the backups are happening locally. Much better in my mind, but we have a battle to fight to get there. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College
