Otto,

That is sometimes called "content addressable storage".

And no, TSM does not include that feature.  There are several products
that claim to provide that feature according to ads in Storage Magazine. I
have no specific knowledge or experience with any of them.

Tab Trepagnier
TSM Administrator
Laitram, L.L.C.




"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 07/15/2005
08:34:00 AM:

> I think this feature is called the "not yet existing feature"....
>
> regards.
>
> Lawrence Clark wrote:
>
> >Does anyone know the name of this feature of TSM I will attempt to
> >describe below. I recall reading something about this in the past:
> >
> >- the ability to recognize the same file is already backed up on one
> >client and avoid duplicate backups of the same file on another
> >client...
> >
> >
>
>
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