Works great, less filling! It's pretty simple to set up, just turn on at the server with a SET, then a couple of parms to set in the dsm.opt file (or a client option set on the server).
I haven't used it since the 4.2 client/server, don't have those WAN/desktops to back up anymore. But at one time I was using it on LAN desktops as well, because a huge chunk of my backups were large (500MB-1GB) .pst files that changed daily. Subfile backup changed those to BLOCK backups instead - saved a huge amount of work daily. I don't back up those machines any more, or I wouild still be using it. Never had any problem doing restores, and we did several full bare-metal restores. Only gotcha is that you may want to think twice if you are NOT using collocation. With subfile turned on, for every file you want to restore you have to restore 2 files: the base file and the delta file. If you are using collocation you won't notice; if you aren't using collocation that means 2 tape mounts instead of 1. Also, I believe the upper limit on file size for subfile backups is still 2GB? Anything files larger than that, get sent in toto. Try it, you'll like it! Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Sherrill Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Adaptive Subfile backups Is anyone using adaptive subfile backups? I have some remote servers that back up over the wan and was wondering if this method would help and what could be some of the adverse effects. Bill Sherrill
