On Tue, 9 Nov 1993 12:42:41 PST Paul L. Bradshaw said:
>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.

Yes that work around did occur to us, but the majority of the machines
are in someones office with 1 or maybe just a few users on them.  I agree
with Richard that the great thing about ADSM is allowing users to do their
own restores, no mounting their filesystems etc., etc., however we
will be backing up a dedicated server machine over NFS, I'm glad to hear
that the performance loss is so low.

I'm sure you're overflowing with requests for clients so, is near future
1994 or 1995?  No sarcasm meant, I'm just doing some planning for backup
services for the next 6mo 1yr and 3yr time periods over network load, # of
machines, disk space requirements, etc...... (oh joyous requests from
management to justify anything)

Just your typical customer want want want when when when :)

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