>The organization I work for has four main establishments. Typically, someone >will go "on mission" to another establishment and perform a backup of his >laptop. Since his dsm.opt points to a server that that is hundreds, if not, >thousands of kilometers away, this backup will be done over the WAN and not the >usual LAN. Occasionally, this user might even attempt to backup 1 or 2 GBs over >the WAN. This obviously causes some problems. > >What to do about this? Blocking the port in the firewall comes to mind but that >is not a real answer. Has anybody encountered this problem and what, if >anything, did you do? Thank you...
Such backups have to be painful for the laptop user as well. I should think that following the procedures outlined in the Windows client manual under "Performing a backup with limited bandwidth" should yield relief. There is a whitepaper on the IBM site describing it in fuller detail. Richard Sims, BU
