ADSM-L

Re: [ADSM-L] Full policy

2008-03-12 19:46:23
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Full policy
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:44:52 -0400
On Mar 12, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Mario Behring wrote:

...There is this customer that have a business requirement of FULL
backup every day with a 30 days retension period. ....

Beware customers who specify a backup requirement and nothing else.
Those are customers who haven't thought things through and who need
the guidance of a storage technologist.  Explore their needs with
them, in order to come up with a data preservation plan which
accommodates recovery, the final goal of backups.  They may actually
be driven by regulatory retention needs than recovery
considerations.  A daily image backup may meet their needs; or they
might need some kind of real-time backup which captures all business
transactions.  If ordinary needs, the TSM Archive facility may cover it.

    Richard Sims

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