I am looking for war-stories, experiences, suggestions, ideas from you
folks that have implemented backing up desktop machines, which could expand
into thousands of additional TSM nodes.

I have been tasked with looking into doing this.  The current guidelines is
to "only backup 'documents and settings/users' folder, excluding all music
files (mp3/wmv/wav/flac/ogg)".

My first thought is to stand-up a new server (or two).  Create a default
policy-domain with short retention (30-days or less) with few copies (2)
and a cloptset with an exclude everything and include doc & settings/users
plus exclude or the music files.

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*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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