Wanda, Do you have that implemented on file servers as well?
Regards, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN We use subfile backup even on local desktops, works great. Cut our daily load by about 30%. -----Original Message----- From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN >From 4.1 onwards there is Adaptive sub-file backup for Mobile Clients. I don't use it or know much about it but I think it allows you to backup the changed bytes/blocks of a file on a laptop rather than the whole changed file. This may be of some use to you depending on the data they are backing up. Cheers John "Richard Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: To: ADSM-L "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote clients transferring GBs over WAN IST.EDU> 26-Mar-2003 13:17 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> >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
