We do not because it is too cumbersome. The answer is what were Backupsets really created for? When Tivoli Sales comes in they sell backupsets as a way to send a remote user/site (laptop users are the main ones) a place to start a recovery from so that the transmission of the entire system over a slow link is eliminated. The backupset is restored first then a restore to bring in all the updates. Dramatic savings for those slow line connected users (56K).
It can be used for servers, but that was not the backupsets' original mission in life. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using Backupsets for Disaster Recovery Does anyone use Backupsets of NT/W2K machines for Disaster Recovery purposes? We are currently running TSM v4.1.5.3, on OS/390 v2.8. Most of our NT/W2K clients are running v.4.2 of the Backup/Archive client. Currently we backup approximately 150 client nodes, and generate backupsets for 28 of those. The backupsets are not created daily, but approximately 2 per week for each node. It does cause some problems with the server. The server seems to "hang" during certain backupsets (mostly large nodes). They are requesting additional backusets, and some daily. I fear this will only cause additional problems with the server. They do rely on the backupsets for Disaster Recovery, but I would like to get them away from that. Any ideas? Thanks! Michael Moore
