Yes, we had thought of this.  Another requirement would be to place each
partition on a separate tape (including incrementals).  If we are
talking 2500 clients copying data across to disk on the TSM server (the
network people won't allow this to be done with NFS) and then backing up
each file space onto a separate tape then we would need to either 1)
create all these virtual nodes or 2) use include statements to bind each
one to it's own storage pool.

Either way would be a maintenance headache!  And of course the customer
does not want a dedicated TSM person - what else is new "Silly-cone
Valley."


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Independent IT Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831) 332-4006
jbassi AT ihwy DOT com