The down side to collocation is that you will/may use more tapes/cartridges.
You can set things up in advance to collocate specific storage pools and put
key servers to back up to that pool therefore keeping restore times to a
minimum.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Joyce Woods [mailto:Joyce.Woods AT ITPMS DOT COM]
Sent:   Monday, December 27, 1999 8:19 AM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:        collocation

Hello,

We were thinking about changing our backups to collocate, but are not sure
if
this is a wise choice.  We are currently backing up 30 servers.  A couple of
them are 100 gig plus.  We were hoping to speed up restore times.....but I
feel
there will be consequences if we do this.  Any thoughts????

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Joyce