Hi Thomas,

Just to be sure, are you talking about LAN or WAN backup traffic? Is your 
bottleneck in the TSM-client-to-switch connection or the switch-to-tsm-server 
connection?

If TSM is saturating your WAN lines, looking into dedup and compression is the 
best you can do. If your problem is within a LAN you might have to reconsider 
your backbone and network design, if that is not an option spreading the client 
start times might do the trick.

But there is no such thing in TSM as bandwidth throttling like in i.e. Symantec 
Netbackup.

 - Bent





-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Tom Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:56 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Bandwidth

Good morning,

        I run TSM 6.3.4


How do I throttle bandwidth so that the clients don't choke the network during 
backups. I have already set a large window for the clients to use, and I am 
reading about client side de-duplication, and adaptive file backup. Are these 
the only two avenues to reduce the bandwidth used by TSM?








Thomas Taylor
System Administrator
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers
Cell (443)-974-5768