>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:23:38 -0600, Roger Deschner <rogerd AT UIC DOT EDU> 
>> said:

> But as we've grown into our present performance crunch, one thing
> has become clear - being a TSM server is a 24-hour workload. So you
> can't borrow cycles from your clients, except by forcing them to do
> the client compression work for you. Problem is, you can say the
> hard work is the backing up all night, but that's only half of
> it. We spend all day running migration, expiration, storage pool
> backup, dead filespace deletion (ouch!), DB backup, and downtime for
> maintenance. These are tasks you cannot distribute to a client
> system which has its own job to do in the daytime. If anything, our
> database is busier by day than at night.


Hm. "Me too".  I want to enlarge on what Roger is saying, but he's hit
it all.


- Allen S. Rout