We have an application that basically just continues to collect documents in a series of volumes/containers, 1 container at a time, beginning to end, until the container is full. Then it "freezes" that container and moves onto the next. One container could be >150GB (if we don't argue hard enough against it), and could contain 10's (maybe 100's) of millions of extremely small files in a very broad, very deep directory structure. Over 2 TeraBytes of these containers have been spec'd for this application.
The overhead of taking a full backup is monumental and is likely to exceed a backup cycle if performed at the OS filesystem level. However, since the "used/full" containers become static and only one container is active at a time, this seems to be an ideal opportunity to utilize TSM Image Backup on a just-frozen container. I'm looking for a few brief success stories on the use of TSM Image Backup - please include time-savings, volume-sizing considerations, and any problems or precautions regarding image backup........and image restore (please don't exclude that part of the story!) -thanks Kent Monthei GlaxoSmithKline
