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[Veritas-bu] How does your backup environment perform?

2002-07-30 11:47:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How does your backup environment perform?
From: jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com (Jeff Kennedy)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:47:10 -0700
Also, in Netware environments in particular, you can be missing data
with a status 1.  Case in point, the Veritas NLM hangs or abends, the
backup quits 25% of the way through, but the status is still reported as
1.  So I'm missing 230gb out of 300+.  Not exactly successful.

~JK

Jason Ahrens wrote:
> 
> > From: Marelas, Peter [mailto:MarelP AT AUSTRALIA.Stortek DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 6:54 AM
> 
> > Performance = % of backup success, success being exit code's 0 and 1 while
> >               exit codes 150 are ignored and all others constitute
> failure.
> 
> Be careful assuming status 1 are successful. It's possible critical files
> were missed. We made that mistake after we were told that status 1 on NT
> systems were OK. Come time to do a BMR on an NT system we found critical
> drivers missing...
> 
> Jason
> 
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