Sam,
Have you looked into ndmp from the filer to your tsm server? If you
are at TSM V5.4 you can do this over ethernet and handle the data just
like any other node - move, copy etc. It also minimizes impact on DB
size. The trick is to recognize ndmp full/differential methodology in
the TSM incremental methodology climate.
Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Sam Sheppard
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:13 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files
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>>--> 02-13-08 16:06 S.SHEPPARD (SHS) Re: Backing up PST files
We are in the same boat here but, even worse, the customer has 'chosen'
to store all of the .PST files on a shared NetApp FAS drive, something
not officially supported by Microsoft. Supposedly this was only going to
be a temporary solution until implementation of something called
Symantec Enterprise Vault. However, the $1M price tag on that is now a
problem and we have been asked the implications of continuing to do
these backups as we do now, given a 1TB/year growth rate.
Currently, we are backing up around 400GB/night out of 2TB of .PSTs and
were going to setup a test of subfile backup early next week. I too
would be interested in any limitations to this scheme. If there is a
.PST larger than 2GB, is it backed up normally?
Thanks
Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:56 -0500
From: "Paul Zarnowski" <psz1 AT CORNELL DOT EDU>
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files using dynamic subfile and OFS
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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Greetings...
We are starting to use Exchange and Outlook here, and now we need to
figure out how to backup PST files.. I know there has been some
discussion of this in the past on this list, and I have researched this.
Here's our problem.
We have a client constituency who will be running Outlook on systems,
some of which are connected sporadically (laptops) and/or over slower
speed network connections.
It seems that Open File Support (OFS) can be used to successfully back
up PST files, which is good. We'd like to also use dynamic subfile
backup on
the systems that are connected via slower networks. The problem is
that
subfile backups have a 2GB filesize limit, and PST files can grow >2GB.
Is anyone else faced with this challenge? If so, how are you addressing
it?
Thanks.
..Paul
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Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757
Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521
719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: psz1 AT cornell DOT edu
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