Thanks for everybody that answered my question, in special for Jeffred that 
detailed the history.

Julio

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Jeffrey Dykzeul [mailto:Jeffrey_Dykzeul AT raytheon DOT com]
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 13 de setembro de 2004 13:43
Para: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Assunto: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU History






I excavated some notes I took during an NBU class in 2001. According to the
instructor:

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In 1990 Chrysler contracted with Control Data to develop a backup product.
The result was AWBUS (Automated Workstation Backup Utility System). This
product was all command line driven and eventually became known as two
entities:

      BackupPlus
      VolumeManager

BackupPlus morphed into NetBackup, but many commands retained the "bp"
prefix. VolumeManager morphed into Media Manager, but many commands
retained prefixes such as "vp" and "tp".

In 1993 the product was sold to OpenVision, which starting developing the X
window interfaces. In fact, the main directory for the product is still
/usr/openv. OpenVision changed the "BackupPlus" name to "NetBackup".

In 1996 Veritas bought OpenVision and renamed "VolumeManager" to "Media
Manager" because they already had a product named "Volume Manager" (which
is used for creating logical volumes from hard disks).
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jd