I can confirm Wanda's statement.  We are actively analyzing this along with 
expiration time required to expire SystemState objects.  It appears to us (on 
v6.2.2 server) that clients running 6.2.1 or later are not a problem whereas 
earlier clients can be a huge problem, not in terms of occupancy so much as how 
long it is taking TSM to expire them.

..Paul

At 01:39 PM 1/20/2011, Prather, Wanda wrote:
>If you will upgrade the client to 6.2.1 or later, the system state backup 
>becomes a true incremental; only changed system state files are backed up.  
>That helps a lot.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
>Of Richard Sims
>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:23 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows 2008 System State backups have too many files
>
>See http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu/msg83952.html
>for the major past discussion of the Windows backup challenge.


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