Laptops imply some sort of mobility, and mean that at night when you
normally run backups they are not present
we currently have a script that the user can start with a telnet like
interface to say if a incremental or a full should run.
The user can so start a backup when they are in.

We also note that due to pc-card speeds the thoughput is lower than on
desktops.

3000 is a lot estimate capacity and think about paralellism , you may
need to invest in storagenodes to make sure you meet backup windows with
full backups.

Good luck anyway, maarten


Steve Lee wrote:
>
> Hi. I have been using Networker to backup 20 Solaris clients for a few
> years. We have one library, do a little manual cloning, a very vanilla
> setup. I have been asked to plan for backing up 3,000 windows clients next
> year. These are desktops and laptops running 98, 2000, XP.
>
> Do I just order a JUMBO library, 3,000 client licenses and hope for the
> best? Is anyone working in a similar environment willing to share
> experiences? I'm comfortable with Networker and Solaris but if I need to go
> to a different platform or a different software so be it.
>
> I welcome all suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
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