Author: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:04:55 -0400
As you may recall, we had a hardware failure, last week, that is requiring a restore of 250GB+ comprised of 20Million files (the # of files seems to be more important than the size) from TSM. latest
We did a couple of tests like this. 2 million files 200+ gb across two client devices, doing a straight backup was very slow and locked up many times and it had to be restarted it quite a number of t
I have several volumes like this on a 5.1.1 TSM server running win2K Server connected to Clairion FC4700 and a Windows 2K Client running TSM5.5.1, Attached to the same Clarion FC4700. I do a weekly i
Author: "Stapleton, Mark" <stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 07:43:34 -0500
Keep in mind that TSM's primary purpose is file backup and restore. Using it as a DR tool requires a lot of additional thought (and work) about how you deploy it, and also how you deploy all the othe
Author: "Magura, Curtis" <curtis.magura AT LMCO DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0400
Like the idea of multiple node names per machine. Say we set up gbnf01c-gbnf01z and let each drive be a "machine" I'm thinking we would actually get through the backup faster that running it all as o
Author: "Magura, Curtis" <curtis.magura AT LMCO DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:57:28 -0400
Whoops.....Response below meant to go to an internal address not as a reply to the list. None the less still like the idea of breaking up some of our bigger machines into smaller "bite size" chunks.
I'm concerned that TSM may be getting a bad rep at your shop because of this situation when it may not be its fault. And I'm much more concerned that there seems to be no real analysis being done by
Author: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:39:26 -0400
While I appreciate the suggestions, the biggest issue is, as always, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Each additional client license costs $5 per month. I don't have a spare terabyte lying around to do DR