Hi,

I also run into this problem.
Thomas Rupp described why this happens.
I am considering to run periodically "dsmc selective" on this directories.
Maybe once a month, this will brind all files on one tape.
If you go this way as well, do not forget to check your backup management
class,
maybe you will want to increase number of versions to keep accordingly

regards
Juraj Salak


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Hi TSM-ers,

How do you backup your server based Windows user profiles?

I have to backup a W2K server with a 160GB disk where the Windows XP
User profiles are stored
- about 1.5 million files and 20GB.
These files have spread over a lot of tapes - a restore of a user
profile just took 4 hours due to
mount wait and tape positioning time.
Node Collocation is enabled - filespace collocation wouldn't help as
this node has only one filespace.

I will give Richard Sims suggestion on how to create a VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT
on Windows a try.
Or has anyone else found a way how to backup and restore user profiles
efficiently?

Client: 5.1.5 on Microsoft W2K cluster
Server: 4.2.2.8

Kind regards and greetings from Austria
Thomas Rupp
Vorarlberger Illwerke AG

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