Bonjour!
  Perhaps you should create a separate primary pool for the large file
server.
Jim

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> From:         Thierry ITTY[SMTP:thierry.itty AT BESANCON DOT ORG]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Friday, June 12, 1998 2:55 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: ADSM Paradigm
>
> A 13:13 11/06/1998 -0500, vous avez icrit :
> >We are about to Trial ADSM and I am struggling with the ADSM Paradigm
> >of "incremental backup forevever".
> >[...]
>
> Hello Tim,
>
> In a few words I agree with Betsy : don't tell about incremental, it's too
> hard to explain to the end-users. I prefer speaking of "full backup
> updated
> every day", it's much more close to adsm's reality, I think.
> In general, we use adsm's normal incremental backup. But for some data we
> need regular snap shots (say the usual monthly or yearly backups), so we
> do
> archives.
> There is just one case I'm studying at the moment (any advice appreciated
> :-) were I have a big file server (150000 files / 10 GB) that is
> intensively updated. I expect its files to reside on a lot of different
> volumes (3490E ~ 1.5 GB) and I'm afraid that I'd need a huge number of
> media mounts in case I had to restore this server after a crash, so I'll
> perhaps try to have monthly "full" (selective, adsm speaking) backups, so
> that all the files get grouped now and then, and the number of mounts
> limited.
>
> Hth,
>
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> Mes idees n'engagent que moi (vieux proverbe du Net)
>
> Thierry ITTY
> eMail : Thierry.Itty AT Besancon DOT org               FRANCE
>