You don't mention what client this is - but the newly released ones
(5.3.3) support journaling for AIX as well as Windows.
That might help with the incremental backup issue.  Could be a lot of
the time is just in navigating the file tree.



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Bell, Charles (Chip)
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 5:26 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Loaded client/server question


I've posed the sob story on here before, but I have a client that has 39
NTFS mounts with millions of files on each. When backing this up on an
incremental basis, it takes multiple days now. Also, the TSM database
grows at a rapid rate, and I have PMRs open on both issues.

 

Now...my question is should I have a separate TSM server serving this
client or should I have 2 instances? I can't back up this client to the
current TSM server because we can't continue to feed the Enterprise DB
for this one client. I seriously need some suggestions and how-to's
because I've never experienced client behavior such as this.  :-(

 

Feel free to email me directly if you have any ideas...

 

God bless you!!! 

Chip Bell 
Network Engineer I
IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM 5.2)
Baptist Health System 
Birmingham, AL 



 




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