Hi Eric,

yes you're right, but we have no other choice. We are a service provider for
banks
and these banks all have a 16Mb TR. For their size (10 to 50 workstations) the
ring speed is
enough.
In the past these companies had 6 fileservers with approx. 2 to4 GB disks. Now
the disks become
bigger and bigger and they have only one server with 18 GB. The ring speed as
really enough
for such an installation. I can understand that they don't want to spend money
for a
faster network. The problem is that we now have the same amount of data on less
physical
servers.
I think that we need a second kind of restore ability with ADSM.

Im looking forward to other suggestions or opinions.

Bye,
Stephan Rittmann




Hi Stephan!
Restoring 18 Gb. trough Token Ring is not a good idea. Your company should
think about a separate backup network. We are currently thinking about it,
based on 1Gb. Ethernet.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon