[Veritas-bu] RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products?
2001-07-11 13:29:07
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[Veritas-bu] RE: [Veritas-vx] Help with Veritas products? |
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curtis AT backupcentral DOT com (W. Curtis Preston) |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0700 |
This is just about the only reason that you would do this with a host-based
volume manager. Making a volume snapshot doesn't allow you to mount it on
another system, so about the only benefit you get it is available for an
immediate restore. It's a pity they're not taking advantage of that.
At 06:14 AM 7/11/2001 -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
> > The biggest example of this is that snapshots (copy on
> > write) can't protect you against a large disk failure on the primary, where
> > copies can.
>
>But, in fact, without serious tweaking of their semantics -- playing with
>their state in non-supported ways -- volume snapshots do not, either.
>Their command model is designed to support use for backup, not as a
>recovery platform.
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