Julie,

One of the biggest performance benefits TSM (I know, I know) will
provide over ADSM is the logical volume backup support.  With this
feature you will be able to back at the logical volume level and not
the file level.  This will be much faster than the regular file level
backup because the entire logical volume will be backed up as one
image to TSM.  We can then use our regular file level backups to
backup any changed file within the logical volumes.  Upon restore
it will be a more traditional restore: restoring the "full backup"
(logical volume level) then restoring the "incremental" the changed
flat files.

There are several other performance enhancements but this one is
one of the better ones.


Joshua S. Bassi
Storage Management Team Lead
Dickens Services Group
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com
(404) 386-9848