I suggest this consideration:

QUIET virtually eliminates backup logging.  When running our ADSM
clients with QUIET, the dsmsched.log only shows Schedule Queries and
Schedule completion statistics.  Info about file Expiration, or what
file transfer generated a Fail message is not captured.

Pete Tanenhaus wrote:
>
> Yes, the QUIET option can significantly improve performance, especially when
> running the client interactively (as opposed to as a service).
>
> This option does the following:
>
>      - Suppresses all output to the screen and eliminates polling the keyboard
> for keys during lengthy operations.
>
>      -  Eliminates writing to the schedule log.
>
>      -   Always waits for off-line media mounts from the server.
>
> For NT, the best possible performance is achieved by running the client
> scheduler service with the QUIET option turned on.
>
> Since the service is non-interactive the only downside to using QUIET is the
> suppression of schedule log output.
>
> Hope this helps ....
>
> Pete Tanenhaus, ADSM NT Client Development
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Pete Tanenhaus/San Jose/IBM on 10/22/98
> 11:54 AM ---------------------------
>
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 10/22/98 11:21:16 AM
> Please respond to ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:
> Subject: QUIET versus Verbose and Performance
>
> Has anyone experimented with the Quiet and Verbose options and determined
> if specifying Quiet improves performance during a scheduled backup?  I'm
> thinking of trying this on our Windows NT clients.  I'm thinking if ADSM
> wasn't writing to the DSMSCHED.LOG file at the same time it's backing up
> the disk where DSMSCHED.LOG resides it might help performance. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Connor
> Niagara Mohawk Power

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