Re: [Veritas-bu] Tapeless backup environments?
2007-09-24 18:19:49
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:08:31PM -0400, bob944 wrote:
> In the technologies I'm familiar with--one of them is old, another new,
> it's conceptually simple. "The system," whether that's a standalone
> system or a box of disk with some smarts or an agent on the backup
> client, receives data and examines it in blocks of some size (AFAIK,
> always way larger than a 512-byte disk block). Simplistically, it
> checksums the "block" and looks in a table of
> checksums-of-"blocks"-that-it-already-stores to see if the identical
> <ahem, anyone see a hole here?> data already lives there.
Yes, there's a hole there if that's all you're relying on. Not all of
them do that.
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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