Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235
"Talafous, John G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/17/2002 07:33 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: DISASTER Client Restores Slow You can use backup sets to create point in time restores of machines. Also with that few tape drives have you considered collocation. That way especially with LTO a small server and several incrementals will fit on one tape. Our CEO's PC is backed up using TSM with Collocation to an LTO drive and after a month of incrementals all his data sits on one tape. A test restore of his workstation took less than 3 hours. Also if you have over 100 servers you need to get more tape drives. I am sure TSM will wait. And while we're on this subject, we are looking at Disaster Recovery plans and the path we must take using TSM to recover a couple hundred servers. It looks bleak. We are finding that, due to incremental forever backups, recovery times are extremely long because of tape mount after tape mount after tape mount. In a real disaster, we expect to take an entire day or more to recover a single server. With a limited number of tape drives the recovery time required for 100 servers could take weeks. Has anyone else run into this dilemma? What is TSM's direction? How can I speed up the recovery process? John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company Global Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com