How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? If your tapes are really
that small consider a hardware upgrade.
an option to consider is image backup (when you have bigger tapes) this
will not help you with single file restores but in case of total
disaster it will be time saver (and job maybe).
one scenario could be
do a image backup every week or so to tape
do normal inc to a disk-library.(device class disk) so  no long search
and mount times. (also not so secure maybe but thats why you have you
image backup on offsite tape)
Remember that (to my knowledge but not sure have to look it up)  you
can't get single files back from an image backup so you need both.

regards


Otto Schakenbos
PC-Support

TEL: +49-7151/502 8468
FAX: +49-7151/502 8489
MOBILE: +49-172/7102715
E-MAIL: otto.schakenbos AT teleflex DOT com

TFX IT-Service AG
Fronackerstrasse 33-35
71332 Waiblingen
GERMANY




Thomas Rupp, Vorarlberger Illwerke AG wrote:

Hi TSM-ers,

How do you backup your server based Windows user profiles?

I have to backup a W2K server with a 160GB disk where the Windows XP
User profiles are stored
- about 1.5 million files and 20GB.
These files have spread over a lot of tapes - a restore of a user
profile just took 4 hours due to
mount wait and tape positioning time.
Node Collocation is enabled - filespace collocation wouldn't help as
this node has only one filespace.

I will give Richard Sims suggestion on how to create a VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT
on Windows a try.
Or has anyone else found a way how to backup and restore user profiles
efficiently?

Client: 5.1.5 on Microsoft W2K cluster
Server: 4.2.2.8

Kind regards and greetings from Austria
Thomas Rupp
Vorarlberger Illwerke AG