At 12:35 PM 7/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there a sublist of folks running ADSM at academic sites?

  Not that I know of...

>At the moment, I'm primarily interested in how folks think about
>"private" (i.e. single user desktop workstations and/or laptops) vs
>"central" (multi-user, administered) machine backup services.  I've got my
>central machine dumping through one stgpool all using the same mgmtclass;
>seems to me that I want the "private" machines to (at least) dump through
>another stgpool.  It doesn't seem to make much sense to colocate private
>data, but then again, it'll then wind up all over the place...

  We don't back up very many private workstations yet, but have gone just
that route.  Seems that the primary benefit of collocation is more
efficient restores, and that's more of an issue on our central servers than
on workstations.  Not collocating the workstations also lets us get the
most out of our available tape storage.


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