Hi, just 2 pennies: - yes, compression on should be used in such configuration, and *sm client is better suited for that than NTBackup. - do think in terms of restore, not in terms of backup backup: while you probbaly will succeed in backuops, will you still be able to perfom good enough at restores, which are non-incremental by their very nature? regards Juraj Salak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: David Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 4. April 2001 17:50 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Backup of Remote Sites I have a question for all of the *SM/Network experts out there. We have a central office that we just started using TSM at. We also have several remote offices that are connected to central office via dedicated lines. Theses sites currently are running their own backups via NTBackup. We are concerned that these backups are unreliable/not offsite/not being done. The dedicated lines are mostly 256Kbs lines but a few are smaller. Is it a good idea to try to back up these sites across the WAN using *SM? We realize that the first backup would take a while, but after we suffer through that, the amount of changed data would be small. Is it a good idea in this case to turn on client compression? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, --David Nash Systems Administrator The GSI Group
