Shannon Bach wrote:

There's some new construction going on in a remote site which will have
their own Data Center(they will not be able to use our LAN because of
some of the applications running). They want their servers to be
backed-up by my TSM Server but because of the network configuration
proposed, I have questions if this would be feasible.  I'm hoping some
of you Guru's can shed some light and give me some food for thought.

There will be two Client Servers that will need to be backed-up, they
will most likely be Win2000's, but I'm still waiting for confirmation on
that.  The current network link proposed is a WAN with a 1.5 meg T1.

I believe this would be way too slow to even be worth while but they
want to send the backups through this Data Center
i stead of having a stand alone backup.  We currently have an MVS/OS390
5.1.7 TSM Server, with plans to go to 5.2 for Z-OS by October.  The
Network person in charge thinks he could request 10 megs for the T1, but
how much would this help for band width and speed?

Depends on how much data needs to be backed up on a nightly basis. We
backup some servers over T1 lines without any difficulty.

Any help or ideas will be much appreciated.
Thanks!


Shannon Bach
Operations Analyst
IMS Data Center Services
Madison Gas & Electric Co.
Office 608-252-7260