On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Curtis Preston wrote: > 1. Have I interpreted this correctly? Yes
> 2. If not, what did I get wrong? > 3. If so, does anyone use this feature? Yes, we do. We have to backup data over a remote SAN and we don't have enough licenses for each client. > 4. If no one uses the feature, why not? It would seem like it help > TSM scale farther. This is backup direct to tape. You can not use a disk based pool. So you need enough tape drives for all the client. Or the data to backup is small enough so don't hold the tapes too long. Stef