Ello, I'll try not to drag on to much ...

We have quite a lot of clients that are in the 10 - 50 servers range (some a
lot more, some less).

I like to set them up to "generally" group clients by data type - typically
"filesystem" and "special". Data goes to the same pool though - but this
more for a performance benefit - and for ease of use. I have seen running a
filesystem (All) backup and a BSM backup at the same time doesnt work that
well (for us).

I as well absolutley adore (note sarcasm) configuring Legato so I normally
end up creating 4 client instances (at least) of each client (Daily, Weekly,
Mo.....). Yes I know all can be done with properly configured schedules etc
... however, I find it easier to explain and leave a networker system behind
that is quite simple to use (understand) by non-networker people (K.I.S.S)
...

For Data retention purposes it is then quite easy to have a Daily retention
policy and this going to a daily pool (inc / diff), weekly (full / mix),
monthly (full), yearly (full) et all.

Typically: For 1 server that has exch (or SAP or SQl or whatever) loaded on
it I'll probably end up creating 8 groups and 8 client instances with 4 sets
of browse and retention periods, 4 schedules and 4 pools.

When the environment grows quite large we normally try and seperate the
groups into more meaningfull chunks as well - perhaps a SQL group and an
Exchange group, of if you like a 18:00 group and a 19:00 group ...

HTH,

Riaan

-----Original Message-----
From: Leiss, Jeffrey [mailto:Jeff.Leiss AT NWDC DOT NET]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:05 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] How Others Do It


I'm trying to get a feel for how others group their BSM backups.. Do you
have a separate pool for them, or do you let them run along with your
file backups? And if you do how has your performance been?

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Jeffrey Leiss
Systems Analyst
ACS
503.466.6540
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