It lets you back up your computer or departmental server to an ADSM server on MITnet. Recently, IS has taken several steps to improve ADSM performance. Second Server Added To handle the increasing demand for desktop and departmental server backups, and to improve performance for existing clients, IS set up a second ADSM server in June. This has significantly improved performance for users on both servers. ADSM Server Upgrade IS has upgraded the ADSM servers from version 2 to version 3.
Clients can restart restore sessions that have been interrupted.
Clients can restore files to a specific point in time if incremental backups have been performed. Collocation IS has initiated collocation, a process that keeps data belonging to a single client node on a minimal number of backup tapes. This reduces the number of tapes that must be accessed when restoring a large amount of data. Data backed up before collocation was turned on is being moved to collocated tape volumes.