From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-CSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >We use tsm server 5.1.5.4 and w2k clients 5.1.5.9. Probably due to the very small size of profile files (most of the files are 1 KB big), the restore session is very very long ... I suppose LTO technology is not so well adapted to the read of such small files with mixed deleted blocks on the tape!
We plan to define a special disk storage pool with NO migration and maxsize of 2K, to keep all these small profile files on disk.< If I may suggest something a little different... 1. Exclude the SYSTEMOBJECTS domain 2. Run a PRESCHEDCMD that uses NTBACKUP to backup the system state to a flat file. 3. Back up the client. Now, instead of 250MB of little files, you've got one big 250MB file to backup (and restore). This process has three benefits: it greatly reduces the number of database objects for W2K clients, the restore is much faster, and this process is much more forgiving when performing BMR to different hardware. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])