On Nov 9, 12:42pm, "Paul L. Bradshaw" wrote:

>You can expect to see a DEC/Ultrix client in the near future, and maybe
>SGI as well.  Remember though that ADSM can backup remote clients via
>network access systems, such as NFS, Lan Server, etc..  Thus you could
>NFS mount all SGI filesystems on a Sun, HP, or AIX client and back them
>up that way.  Premliminary test show about a 5% performance reduction
>using this method, but you get the system backed up on a regular basis.
>You could configure ADSM to do this via the -domain option in the config
>file to automate it.

That's good news.  Yes, I know we could arrange backup for non-supported
clients that way.  The downside is that we would still not be able to provide
user-directed restores to the workstation, which is one of the big advantages
of ADSM.

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