VSS Question

I was asked about Exchange backups today and after looking at some documentation I remembered that with Exchange 2003 there is a VSS backup option. For the life of me I can't think of anyone who has used it with their Exchange backups. Is there anyone out there who has attempted to use, or is using VSS with their Exchange TDP? I have never trusted it enough to rely on it for my Exchange backups. It has enough problems with the system objects, but since MS has had some time to work out the kinks has anyone been successful with it? Is it worth the hassle?

TSM Summary Table Question

So here is a question I hope someone can answer, does the SUMMARY table in the TSM DB track all backups whether they are scheduled or client initiated (cron or manually) or does it just track scheduled backups? Also does it track LAN-Free backups with data amounts? I figure it only tracks scheduled backups, but I haven't taken the time to look. If anyone cares to wager a guess or has the definitive answer please let me know.

Not so bad IBM article about...

...Tivoli Storage Manager Client Incremental Backup Memory Requirements

DIRMC Saga Suggestions

Flex asked about DIRMC and I have had experience using it. When I was with IBM we used it to backup all the directories to disk and we kept them on disk for fast restore. This was especially useful when we ran into the know issue with MS checkdisk and cluster volumes with over 4 million files. The chkdsk would would run and strip all permissions from files and folders. Since our files inherited their permissions from the folder by restoring the directories we were able to quickly recover from the permission stripping without having to do a full restore.

DIRMC saga

Do you use DIRMC option?

If your answer is YES, could you describe why and how you use it?
I'm a bit confused regarding this topic... Do we have to use this feature at all?

TSM Symposium 2007

Has anyone been at this symposium yet? It seems to me the topics were/will be interesting...

Here is the link about the details: Click!