I have 6 key servers that I create backupsets for (Tuesday and Thursday). Depending on your media (mine is DLT 40/80) and your DR site hardware (availability of drives to use), I would suggest the more servers you can put on a backupset the better. These sets are great to have running while you build your TSM server and restore your DB. I mostly use them for NT4 systems, but will be working more with them and Win2000 servers. NT4 was easy to do a bare metal compared to WIN2000.
I ran into a few hung sessions while creating some backupsets with my web servers (alot of small files). I ran a selective backup on those troubled nodes and this seemed to fix this. server is 4.2.1.12 on Win2000AS Joe -----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
