We are currently analyzing the same desire/issues - have been for a while.
 Same idea to just backup "documents".  Just went through some dog-and-pony
shows of different vendors and currently CommVault is the leader.

My understand was for this kind of issue, TSM FastBack would be the way to
go (no, not the FastBack that comes with SUR - that isn't for workstations).

I too am interested in hearing how other folks are handling desktop
backups.....


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:37 AM, David Jelinek <David.Jelinek AT cmich DOT 
edu>wrote:

> We have used TSM for our Enterprise backups of our servers for many years.
>
> We are now considering backing up our end-user desktop machines, but
> only the user folders. Has anyone had experience using TSM to backup
> desktop machines? What issues did you have to overcome? Do the end users
> understand how to restore files using the GUI? If a desktop machine is
> used by multiple login accounts at different times, does the TSM GUI
> allow a client to only view/restore their own files?
>
> We are concerned with both Windows and Macs.
>
> Does anyone know of a feature matrix comparison of TSM and Crashplan?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Have a wonderful day,
> David Jelinek
>



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