[Veritas-bu] Top 10 Things I Hate About NetBackup
2002-01-23 18:43:10
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[Veritas-bu] Top 10 Things I Hate About NetBackup |
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rob AT worman DOT org (Rob Worman) |
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:43:10 -0600 |
At 12:34 PM -0800 1/23/02, Fabbro, Andrew P wrote:
>Entertaining myself here at lunch, I present, in no particular order...
a few addenda, but by and large a fine list, Andrew!
>10. Can't set exclude lists at the master, only at the client. Very silly.
Unix-specific. NT clients can have their exclude list centrally
administered by an NT master or a machine with the "NT Admin Console"
software configured. But even in this scenario, you're still editing
each client's registry remotely, albeit simultaneously if you wish,
so it's far from perfect.
>7. The X-windows backup/restore GUI doesn't have a "preview media required"
>feature for a restore. The Java backup/restore GUI doesn't show you a list
>of the backup images. I wish there was one that did both ;)
you can get a motif-style listing of backup images in the jbpSA GUI.
There's a little graphic next to the date range selection field -
click it and switch your preference to viewing a list of images.
(sometimes the java GUI reminds me of playing Myst! :-)
>6. bpinject sucks. I think bpinject is only packaged with bpvault.
that's true, it's part of bpvault.
>A better solution is simple:
or just use vmupdate -empty_ie if you want to add tapes from the CAP door.
>4. Frequency for hours, days, and weeks...but not months! How can I do once
>a month? I can do every 4 weeks, but that doesn't really work because
>there's an extra week every quarter.
yes, it would be nice to be able to do "calendar-based" scheduling.
perhaps in a future version they will introduce as an alternative
option to the current "interval-based" scheduling.
>2. Archive doesn't make two copies, only one. Considering that you're
>blowing the data away from disk, I'd feel better if it was written to two
>tapes, but NetBackup only does one. I wish this was configurable.
yes, it would be nice to be able to have multiple copies of a backup images.
perhaps in a future version they will introduce the ability to
simultaneously make multiple copies of a backup image, as well as
allowing more than just 1 additional copy of said image.
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