Hi Nancy, for workstations and laptops, I've always been a fan of CDP for files:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/continuous-data-protection/ especially for mobile workstations that don't have a permanent connection to the TSM server, that may be the solution you're looking for. On 28 mrt 2011, at 21:17, Nancy L Leugemors wrote: > Hello Group, > > I would like to know what products other TSM folks are using to back up > laptops and desk tops in their environment? We have a business > requirement that started out with only backing up an average of '200' > termed laptops/workstations and need to keep the termed employees data for > 10 years. Now the business would like us to look into backing up all our > laptops and workstations(approximately 2,000 Wintel desktops and 600 > Wintel laptops). We believe the average capacity used may be 5-10GB. Our > laptops are already encrypted with encryption software. We have some > remote offices with laptops(maybe 20 laptops). > > We are currently started looking into the EMC Avamar product and IBM so > far? > > Anyone using Avamar, if yes, how is it working out for you,any gotcha's? > Anyone using other products that may fit our needs? > > > Background of our current backup environment: > TSM Server: 5.5.4.0 > TSM OS: AIX, 5.3 > We eliminated our physical tape environment in our open systems and > mainframe environment last year. We replaced our EDLs and physical tape > libraries with Data Domains. We emulated VTL library for 95% of our > clients and have an NFS share for database logs and important TSM files. > Then we replicate our opens systems(TSM) data domain and our mainframe > data domain to an offsite data domain for DR recovery. > > > Thank You, > > > > > > Nancy Leugemors > Enterprise Systems > HealthNow, NY > 716-887-7979 > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the > sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, > confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation > of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for > delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender > by reply email and destroy all copies of the original > message.
