One of our TSM servers backs up approx. 350 Wintel desktops nightly, plus
about 30 Windows & UNIX servers.

Our users keep their .pst files on their desktops, rather than on the
fileserver.  Our daily load has been growing steadily, doubling every year,
and I determined that the biggest chunk of the growth was those .pst files. 

I turned on subfile backup last Nov. 1 for all our desktops via a client
option set.  I let it grab everything, not just the .pst files, and it has
dropped my daily load by about 30%!  

Haven't had ANY problem with it.  I tested extensively on .pst files of my
own, and I haven't been able to break it.  And we have successfully done 4
bare-metal restores since implementing it.  I'm a happy camper!

TSM 4.1.3 for AIX; all TSM clients are 4.2.0; desktops are WIn2K PRO SP1 &
SP2.
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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