Ole Holm Nielsen asks:

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We're almost ready to order the ADSM product for backup of our
workstation network (including an SP2).  I read mails to this list
referring to a "disk pool", and this worries me:

We don't want to allocate any "disk pool" whatsoever for backup
purposes (except for the records of what's on tape).  We want the
network disks to be copied directly to tape (and back again when
restoring files) without any intermediate stage requiring disk
storage.

Question:  Does ADSM allow configuration in this way ?  Will I gain
significant functionality from enabling a "disk pool" ?

I could of course go for the Legato Networker solution, which doesn't
require intermediate storage.

Any comments ?  This could be most helpful for our future backup
strategy.
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No, you do not need a disk storage pool to do backups and archives. One =
advantage of using a disk storage pool is for performance - you can back =
up and restore data more quickly from disk than tape. Of course, this =
probably applies to almost any backup product.

But if you want to back up directly to tape, there's absolutely no =
reason why you can't. In fact, the ability to back up directly to tape =
was one of my criteria for selecting a backup product.

Andy Raibeck