Our environment is HP-UX 11.11, Netbackup 5.1 MP3 backing up mostly HP unix with some Sun and Windows backups. It’s audit time again and the auditors are asking for validation that a backup ran
Author: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
Unless you have infinite retention backups, the default is to keep the past 28 days of logs/information, I'm afraid you're out of luck, unless someone else has an idea? Justin. ______________________
Aptare is worth the investment! == Carl Stehman IT Distributed Services Team Pepco Holdings, Inc. 202-331-6619 Pager 301-765-2703 ckstehman AT pepco DOT com "BeDour, Wayne" <WBedour AT lear DOT com>
Wayne: If the retention period is longer than 6 months, you can get this information from the bpimagelist command. Proof that an image exists is proof of a successful backup. If the retention period
Author: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:31:05 -0400
It would be a meaningless audit question to ask you to confirm a backup that had expired ever actually existed. Are they asking about something you do with one year or infinite retention? If not then
Author: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:26:27 -0400
I would agree with Peter (mostly). I would add that if the image is there AND it’s of a similar size to other images of that system, then it’s proof. You can have a failed backup that sti
Author: "Sesar, Steven L." <ssesar AT mitre DOT org>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:56:50 -0400
Precisely. An auditor worth his/her salt, would ask for proof of backups AND restores, each performed on a regular basis. A logged backup means nothing in the world of data protection. There are so m
You can either show up client backup images (bpimagelist): this will server as proof of backups being done to client on specific date in question (provided images do exists) Else perform simple resto
We are under SOX auditing, and we give our auditors our daily backup reports for certain days they request. They seem to be happy with this information... --Original Message-- From: veritas-bu-bounce
Thanks for all the replies. Ya gotta love this group you can almost see the hair raising on the back of everyone's neck when they see the dreaded word "Auditor". I actually was able to get most of th