>At 12:35 PM 7/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Is there a sublist of folks running ADSM at academic sites?
>
>  Not that I know of...
>
>>At the moment, I'm primarily interested in how folks think about
>>"private" (i.e. single user desktop workstations and/or laptops) vs
>>"central" (multi-user, administered) machine backup services.  I've got my
>>central machine dumping through one stgpool all using the same mgmtclass;
>>seems to me that I want the "private" machines to (at least) dump through
>>another stgpool.  It doesn't seem to make much sense to colocate private
>>data, but then again, it'll then wind up all over the place...
>
>  We don't back up very many private workstations yet, but have gone just
>that route.  Seems that the primary benefit of collocation is more
>efficient restores, and that's more of an issue on our central servers than
>on workstations.  Not collocating the workstations also lets us get the
>most out of our available tape storage.
>

I do have lots of desktops and a limited number of cartridges, so that was
my thinking too.  Collocation is restricted to a couple of dozen servers
and SQL-Backtrack nodes.  Everybody else goes in the generic tapepool.

Fred Johanson
System Administrator
SEA
NSIT
University of Chicago
773-702-8464