With respect to that:

Say we have 500 10 GB PC's.  Say they're 80% full.  We back up the whole
mess so we get 4 TB of data.  That's only forty AIT3/LTO/SDLT tapes.  In a
large site that's nothing.  And since we only do incrementals on these
everyday, how long will it take and how much data will we move?  Precious
little.

So even if you have lots of clients and you backup way too much you're still
not in much trouble!

Paul is right: most of us will restore a PC from some corporate standard
image and get the user's data back as a separate step.  Doing a typical TSM
bare metal restore on a user desktop?  Not going to happen.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
lipp AT storsol DOT com or kelly.lipp AT storserver DOT com
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175