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Hi All

Having managed to finally get my customers to set up some new
infrastructure with V6 TSM servers, I'm now going through the process
of upgrading clients.

The 5.5 TDP for SQL has long been in use, is well understood and is
stable.  The new TDP version 7.1 that we are moving to now has the
option of VSS or legacy backups. I understand that VSS backups are
essential if we need to offload backup processing or use hardware
snapshots, or multiple local VSS restore points in the one day, but
most of our SQL apps are small backup-in-full-once-a-day affairs.  I
feel inclined to continue to use legacy backup for these, mostly
because of the set-up overhead and complexity for VSS.

What is best practice?  If you use both legacy and VSS, what criteria
inform that choice? Does TSM for VE significantly affect the equation?
(I don't have that yet, but the writing is on the wall)

Regards

Steve.

Steven Harris
TSM Admin,
Canberra Australia.
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