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[Veritas-bu] NT/2000 backup strategy and two class management

2001-10-10 11:13:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NT/2000 backup strategy and two class management
From: AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca (Jason Ahrens)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:13:10 -0400
> The danger here should be obvious. If two different classes 
> are performing
> backups of a Windows systems, and each class is playing with 
> the archive
> bits on the file system, the integrity and consistency of both sets of
> backup images are suspect for anything except full backups 
> (unless nothing
> except full and cumulative incremental backups are done, you 
> cannot use
> differential incremental).

Upon further thought I realized even this statement was wrong. Class1 does a
full backup, then starts into it's cumulatives. At some later point, class2
does a full and resets all the archive bits. Suddenly the cumulatives of
class1 are no longer complete...

Jason

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