Thank you all for your input.  Seems like the Backup World is big enough, you 
would think Gartner would publish a Basic Ratio as they do for SAN admins to 
disk. (Like many places our mngt thinks Gartner is King) but this exercise we 
go through annually is to get upper mngt's but in).

Have a great day!!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
David Nicholson
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:09 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up?


What a great time for this post/question!!!  Thanks for asking it!!


(2) TSM servers, 2 tape Libraries (3494 w/ 15 3590's drives / 2500 cells
and a 3584 w/ 6 LTO II drives / 250 cells)
800 nodes (AIX, Windows, Linux) Every flavor of DB or app you can imagine.
We backup 2-3TB a day.
Total stored in TSM is 90TB, combined database used is 80GB.

We invest around 4-8 hours a day on TSM "stuff".  TSM like everything else
is under staffed...we could be investing about 3 times the amount of
people resources on TSM that we currently do.


Dave