We are expanding our ADSM usage by more than 100 clients per month,
and at least one third of those are Macs.  The requirement for a
DOMAIN statement in the Mac ADSM Preferences file is the biggest
single problem we have with ADSM.  It makes ADSM very difficult for
naive users to install.  Worse, it exposes users (and us) to their
believing when they add a hard disk that it is being backed up even
though they didn't remember to add it to the DOMAIN statement.

Something needs to be done about this.  As I understand it, the
problem is one of distinguishing between local hard disks and CD-ROM
drives.  At this point, I would be happy to have an option to default
to backing up both those kinds of drives rather than requiring the
DOMAIN statement.  We can afford the extra tapes more than we can
afford to have to tell a user that we have no backups of the disk
that just died.

I would be very grateful for any assistance ADSM Development can
give us with this problem.

Melinda Varian,
Princeton University