THANK YOU Fred - 71000 new DB entries, per client, per day, is data base doom.
I'm gonna start recommending the preschedule with ntbackup to everybody.... W On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Fred Johanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Wanda, > > My calculations > > Current Windows = 3 Gb in c$; new Windows = 15 Gb in c$. That's installed > out of the box. If we collocated by filespace, the $c tape would hold about > 250 clients from current Windows, and about 50 clients from new Windows. > > Current Windows = 16k files so 16k entries in TSM db or 12.8 Mb; new > Windows = 71k files so 71k entries in TSM db or 56.8 Mb. There are today > 2140 WinNT clients that will be upgraded to or replaced by new Windows. > > Current Windows Systemobject = 600 Mb; new Windows systemobject = 7+ Gb. > TSM has 2.5-3 Gb of storage for Systemobject for current Windows; New > Windows will have 28-35 Gb per client. The exception is the AD clients > which keep 180 versions or 108 Gb for current Windows, which translates to > 1.25 Tb in new Windows. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Wanda Prather > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Win2008 System State > > Yes, systemstate backups have always been fulls. (I believe there was some > mumbling about Win2K3 changing something to make it possible to do > incrementals instead of fulls, but I've never seen any difference, and no > further mumbling has ensued...sort of like the mumbling that told us Vista > would be better than those XP annoyances...) > > What you have NOT mentioned is the impact of SystemState backups on the TSM > DB, because in WIn2K the systemstate backup is at least 2000 objects. Per > systemstate backup, meaning per day. Couple thousand more for 2003. > Anybody figured out the number for 2008? > > I've had customers where I've found a SUBSTANTIAL percentage of their TSM > DB > taken up with (pretty useless) system state backups, with just WIn2K and > Win2K3. Win2008 will blow up a lot of TSM data bases, looks like. > > W >
