ADSM-L

Re: It's too easy !

1998-04-07 09:39:28
Subject: Re: It's too easy !
From: Bob Matthews <Robert.Matthews AT SEINF.UNIGE DOT CH>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:39:28 +0200
Brett, I feel the argument is starting to go round in circles so, like Cris 
Robinson, I shall make this my last blast on the subject.

>Neither V2 nor V3 offered the kind of protection you want.

Well they should. 

> With V2, it was just as easy to select additional items in the domain.

That's the basic problem. With V2 they had to select *ADDITIONAL* items. Now 
they have to select the initial items also, because *NOTHING* is pre-selected. 
I admit that what I'm requesting goes beyond what was in V2 but I don't see any 
viable alternative - that's the position that V3 has put us in.

>In V3, they still have to select a menu option to incrementally backup the
>domain. However, this is actually safer, because the user can't change what
>that domain is without editing the DOMAIN option.

Safer? Maybe, but it needs to be *FOOLPROOF*. There are probably even users who 
will think that "Backup Domain" will backup their Windows NT domain so they'll 
select simple "Backup" instead.

>I would also suggest submitting an ADSM requirement (via your IBM rep)
>about adding the ability to disable the backup of network drives from a
>client.

Sigh, more circles. OK, I'll try but it may not be as easy as it sounds.

>There is one other thing you can do, but it doesn't really fix your
>problem.  By using the "EXCLUDE.DIR" option, you can basically exclude an
>entire drive.  For example,
>   exclude.dir "La Pomme:*"
>will exclude all directory trees on drive La Pomme (the root files will
>actually get backed up, but that's another issue).  Obviously, this only
>works if you happen to know the name of drive that is being backed up.  But
>for those users who keep doing it by accident, you can add it to their
>server defined option file.

Not practical. I have 1,000 users of all levels of computer literacy, using 
almost every client platform supported by ADSM and spread throughout the city. 
I need a feature that the administrator can use from a central location.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Bob Matthews,
University of Geneva.
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