Abi,

     We select one client that has all of the common packages and include
     them in the backup. The common packages are excluded from the other
     clients. Also, we only backup the servers (stuff on a person's machine
     is his/her responsibility); users can store data on the servers
     though.


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  *  Rick Tsujimoto                                   *
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     >e are backing up several PCs, some UNIX servers, MACs, Novell servers
     >to an MVS ADSM 2.1 server.  We now have over 100 PCs (will be many
     >more) running Windows 3.1, MSWord, Excel,  etc. and few Win95.  So
     >far we have been backing up these PCs without excluding these
     >software packages.  Now we would like to exclude them from backup.
     >The main reason for backing them up in the first place was for a
     >faster disaster recovery incase of hard disk crashes. How are others
     >handling backing up common software packages and operating systems?
     >Can Win95 be excluded from backup as easily as Windows 3.1? Is
     >creating a separate disk storage pool just for these helpful?
     >Thanks for any input.

     >Abi