Re: features: append, span tapes, compress?
2003-01-23 21:33:06
Gene Heskett on Thu 23/01 20:13 -0500:
> > Several years ago I moved two clients from Networker (Sun's
> > version). They have never looked back. One client in particular was
> > pissed at Legato's claim (at the time) that because the backup host
> > had died, there was no way to recover any of the existing backups.
>
> 'scuse me Jon. If I was that client, paying thru the nose and got
> that reply, I think my next call would have been to the lawyers.
> They have a certain amount of responsibilty to facilitate recovery
> from *any* failure, after all, thats what you are paying them for.
> Thats in-excusable for a commercial product to have that kind of an
> attitude. But then I think, from my conversations with knox, that
> knox would probably be a somewhat nicer situation. Can anyone testify
> any differently? OTOH, if you can get one of their tapes into a drive
> that will read that tape, all the stuff to do a from scratch recovery
> is actually on the tape itself as a lengthy header that you can dd
> back, uncompress and run to get the rest of it. On every tape, just
> grab one and go.
well, id did qualify it with "at the time."
I remember a utility called "scanner" that came with Networker that
could be used to reconstruct indexes from tape, in our version. Who
know what it was like many years ago.
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