Geniuses!!! ooooooh *HEAD SWELLING*
hey, we're all rookies.

Simple question, maybe. Simple answer, never!

What kind of production machine is this? Is it an machine with an active
database which either needs to be shut down or requires and agent, like
Exchange,Notes, SQL etc?

If so then that is what they refer to as a cold backup. You can very well
have backed up without and failures. There issue of course is that data may
be changing.

So, back to my original question. What are we backing up?

Thanks -
CR

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Cris Robinson
Sr. Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management / TSM (ADSM)
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joyce Woods [SMTP:Joyce.Woods AT ITPMS DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:00 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      A simple backup question
>
> Hi Everybody !!!!
>
> Once again I am turning to all you geniuses out there to set me straight
> !!!
>
> We moved a massive amount of data to one of our Production machines.  The
> administrator of that machine is worried that because we didnt have a
> "cold
> backup", that not everything was saved.  Can someone enlighten me.  Every
> night
> it shows that "0" objects have not failed......so it looks to me as if
> everything is being saved.  I'm a little paranoid.  Thanks for putting up
> with
> me.......I am a rookie.
>
> Have a great day !!
> Joyce