We point the user applications (Word, Excel, proprietary apps, etc.) to the
users home directory on the file server, and then just backup the file
server(s).
Douglas C. Nelson
Distributed Computing Consultant
Alltel Information Services
Chittenden Data Center
2 Burlington Square
Burlington, Vt. 05401
802-660-2336
-----Original Message-----
From: Pucky, Todd M. [mailto:Puckyt AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:40 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Workstation Backups and TSM
TSMers,
My company is working toward restructuring the way we backup end users'
data. Currently, we have 2450 workstations (desktops and laptops - Win95,
WinNT, Win2000, WinXP) that we backup to our TSM server (AIX 5.1, TSM
4.2.3.2). Each of these nodes is in a schedule that backups one time per
week. These backups do incremental (complete) backups of every file on the
PC except for the normal excludes (*.tmp files, *:\recycle\*, etc). We also
have 450 other nodes on this server in a domain called SERVER. These nodes
backup nightly in schedules, from which we are seeing numerous missed
backups. We are facing the problem of a severely overloaded server! In our
pursuit of developing a process we have come up with a few questions that we
were interested in getting answers to...
For those sites that do workstation/desktop backups:
How many clients do you have on your TSM server?
Do you run scheduled backups on these clients or do you let end users
control their backups? If you run scheduled backups, how frequently?
What do you backup (single directory, such as My Documents)?
For sites that do not do workstation/desktop backups:
What is the best solution you have found for backing up end users' data?
Thanks for the input and advice.
> Todd Pucky
> The Timken Company
> Global Information Systems
> Phone: 330.471.4583
> E-Mail: puckyt AT timken DOT com
>
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