Determining correct retention settings for NetApp volume image ba ckups using Tivoli TSM NDMP

2003-08-14 Thread Rick Stratton
pp NAS image backups more file-level (like regular LAN-client incremental backups) as opposed to block-level (this is assuming that NDMP backups of NetApp volumes are block-level, which I am unsure of at this point! :-) ) Rick Stratton

Re: Does the Windows journal engine affect (help) ARCHIVE perform ance ?

2003-06-08 Thread Rick Stratton
All, Thank you for your postings on whether the journal engine helps with ARCHIVE performance. It basically validated two of my thoughts: 1: The journal engine does not help ARCHIVE performance 2: The way we are doing backups and offsite vaulting for this customer is not the best approach

Does the Windows journal engine affect (help) ARCHIVE performance ?

2003-06-07 Thread Rick Stratton
I have a Windows2000 client who has well over 5 million files that we ARCHIVE every week for offsite-vaulting purposes. Why we don't use the TSM primary storage pool --> copy storage pool methodology for this client would take a while to explain. At any rate, due to the large # of files (currently