On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Steve Lee wrote:

> Subject: [Networker] expansion plans
>
> Hi. I have been using Networker to backup 20 Solaris clients for a few
> years. We have one library, do a little manual cloning, a very vanilla
> setup. I have been asked to plan for backing up 3,000 windows clients
> next
> year. These are desktops and laptops running 98, 2000, XP.
>
> Do I just order a JUMBO library, 3,000 client licenses and hope for the
> best? Is anyone working in a similar environment willing to share
> experiences? I'm comfortable with Networker and Solaris but if I need to
> go
> to a different platform or a different software so be it.
>
> I welcome all suggestions.
>

Steve,

In a previous life, we backed up desktops.  Each desktop had from 1-4 GB of
data and was backed up daily.  This was in the days of Networker 4.X running
on adn SGI with a single library.  There were about 650 clients on this
server.  The problem was not the library, but the lack of cpu on the server.
It was a 16 cpu Challenge with lots of memory.  That sucker would take forever
to start up and check all of the indexes at the same time.

Given the cost of licenses, network bandwidth and people time required to
maintain this setup, I recommend encouraging users to use centralized storage
and deal with laptops independently.

Good luck dealing with management on this issue!

Shelley

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