Neil,
A thankless task
There is no magic tweak to TSM that will make it go faster than its
bottleneck, in your case the network will allow.
One option might be to look at centralised servers, but if this is not
possible, then you need to work out the best
speed your network link will provide say 100 mb. an hour for 256k and base
your plans on what is possible.
Oh and of course get management and the users signed up to whatever
service level you can provide.
Maybe one backup a week might concentrate a few minds.
good luck
John



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Has anybody has experience with backing up over slow N/W's (min. 256k)?

Unfortunately the clients are NOT Windows boxes so I can not use adaptive
backup or journaling features. Currently I am not aware of the daily
change rate of data on each system. My initial thoughts are to perform a
staggered initial backup and then once complete implement a daily
incremental backup. Things that I am looking for would be advice on the
best performance tuning parameters to use.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Neil Sharp <neil AT dyadic DOT com>,
Technical Support & TSM Consultant



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