==> In article <2DC18B3B8E098147A593039AF001958906D130 AT 
CTG-MSNEXC01.staff.berbee DOT com>, "Stapleton, Mark" <mark.stapleton AT BERBEE 
DOT COM> writes:

> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Sam Rudland
>> I have a 5.2 client installed n AIX and it takes several hours each
> night which it checks a few hundred thousand files. I have used
> journaling on some of my Windows clients and was hoping a similar
> facility would be available to me in AIX but after having a look around
> I had no joy.
> =============


> There is not a journaling service for any TSM client save Windows. You might
> consider the use of multiple nodenames for the troublesome client, each
> nodename backing up its own portion of the machine. That would (partially)
> alleviate the problem, and would speed up complete machine rebuilds as well.


Another strategy that can help in some situations is to divide up large
filespaces with virtualmountpoints.

This can permit you to hit a given physical filespace in parallel (with
resourceutilization settings properly tuned) and it can also decrease the
chunk of TSM database you need to have downloaded at any one time, which might
also be a speed win.


Where the division was especially clean, I've had as many as 10
virtualmountpoints on a single physical filesystem;  it worked very well
indeed.


- Allen S. Rout