Hi Steve! Before we used ADSM we used Legent's ESM (now I believe it's called CA-ESM). ESM also stored one copy of each identical file. Believe me, you do not want that. The first (and thus only) copy of winword.exe is definitively stored on a different tape than the rest of the clients data. This kind of duplicate backup data elimination causes the data to be scattered across numerous tapes. I know this from experience. This is one of the reasons (the other reason was that the product was buggy as hell) we migrated from ESM to ADSM a few years ago. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Cochran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 18:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PC Magazine Enterprise Backup Article - NO MENTION OF I'm not an expert with ADSM, but does ADSM have any of the advanced features that this article talked about? Can it back up a file only once for all the computers that have a copy of it? Or will it back up Winword.exe 5000 times for my whole organization? We're starting to look at what it will take to offer backup for the entire campus, and some of these advanced features would be desirable. Steve Cochran Dartmouth College ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **********************************************************************
