I excavated some notes I took during an NBU class in 2001. According to the
instructor:

******* start *******
In 1990 Chrysler contracted with Control Data to develop a backup product.
The result was AWBUS (Automated Workstation Backup Utility System). This
product was all command line driven and eventually became known as two
entities:

      BackupPlus
      VolumeManager

BackupPlus morphed into NetBackup, but many commands retained the "bp"
prefix. VolumeManager morphed into Media Manager, but many commands
retained prefixes such as "vp" and "tp".

In 1993 the product was sold to OpenVision, which starting developing the X
window interfaces. In fact, the main directory for the product is still
/usr/openv. OpenVision changed the "BackupPlus" name to "NetBackup".

In 1996 Veritas bought OpenVision and renamed "VolumeManager" to "Media
Manager" because they already had a product named "Volume Manager" (which
is used for creating logical volumes from hard disks).
******* end *******

jd





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Personally, I'd believe Bonnie Kate before I'd believe me.
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Greenberg, Katherine A [mailto:GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com]
      Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:39 AM
      To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO; jdezan AT diveo.net DOT br;
      veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
      Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU History

      Backup Plus was the product Veritas purchased from openvision back in
      the early '90s.

      ~Kate




      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Katherine Greenberg
      Systems Engineer
      Mid-Range Storage Management
      Aetna, Inc.






       -----Original Message-----
      From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
      [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
      Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
      Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 11:27 AM
      To: jdezan AT diveo.net DOT br; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
      Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU History



      A former name was "Backup Pro", I believe.

      -M
            -----Original Message-----
            From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
            [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of
            Julio Duarte de Assis Dezan
            Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:19 AM
            To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
            Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU History

            Anyone know why all commands in Netbackup starts with "bp".
            I'm writing a presentantion and I want to know what is the
            meaning of this acronym.

            Thanks,

            Julio







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