Sam, Have you looked into ndmp from the filer to your tsm server? If you are at TSM V5.4 you can do this over ethernet and handle the data just like any other node - move, copy etc. It also minimizes impact on DB size. The trick is to recognize ndmp full/differential methodology in the TSM incremental methodology climate.
Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Sheppard Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files ---------------------------- Top of message ---------------------------- >>--> 02-13-08 16:06 S.SHEPPARD (SHS) Re: Backing up PST files We are in the same boat here but, even worse, the customer has 'chosen' to store all of the .PST files on a shared NetApp FAS drive, something not officially supported by Microsoft. Supposedly this was only going to be a temporary solution until implementation of something called Symantec Enterprise Vault. However, the $1M price tag on that is now a problem and we have been asked the implications of continuing to do these backups as we do now, given a 1TB/year growth rate. Currently, we are backing up around 400GB/night out of 2TB of .PSTs and were going to setup a test of subfile backup early next week. I too would be interested in any limitations to this scheme. If there is a .PST larger than 2GB, is it backed up normally? Thanks Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668 -----------------------------------------------------------------------` ---------------------------- Top of message ---------------------------- >>--> 02-13-08 10:43 ..NETMAIL (001) [ADSM-L] Backing up PST f Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:56 -0500 From: "Paul Zarnowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files using dynamic subfile and OFS To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU _________________________________Top_of_Message_________________________ ________ Greetings... We are starting to use Exchange and Outlook here, and now we need to figure out how to backup PST files.. I know there has been some discussion of this in the past on this list, and I have researched this. Here's our problem. We have a client constituency who will be running Outlook on systems, some of which are connected sporadically (laptops) and/or over slower speed network connections. It seems that Open File Support (OFS) can be used to successfully back up PST files, which is good. We'd like to also use dynamic subfile backup on the systems that are connected via slower networks. The problem is that subfile backups have a 2GB filesize limit, and PST files can grow >2GB. Is anyone else faced with this challenge? If so, how are you addressing it? Thanks. ..Paul -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------` IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.