It's a good thing.

You can just turn it on and use it with the defaults and get a lot of
benefit.

Or you can use include (or exclude).subfile to use it just for a group of
files - works great on those nasty, ever-expanding .pst files.


It creates a \baclient\cache subdirectory - REMEMBER TO EXCLUDE that
subdirectory from  your client backups!



-----Original Message-----
From: Rowan O'Donoghue [mailto:R.ODonoghue AT UNITECH-IE DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:31 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Subfile backups (or Adaptive Copy)


All,

Have a customer looking at subfile backups for two webservers which are
hosted at a remote hosting facility and connected via a WAN.

We are looking at using subfile backups to enable these servers to
participate within the TSM hierarchy, but I want to get a feel of
real-world-experiences from people who are actually using it in production
at the moment.

What have been your main issues? (apart from the obvious being expanded
TSM processing time on the client, and slow restores).

Also, how have you sized the subfile cache area? Was there a rule of thumb
for this sizing?


thanks!

Rowan.