[Veritas-bu] Backing Up Old Files
2007-01-19 03:13:13
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[Veritas-bu] Backing Up Old Files |
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simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net (WEAVER, Simon) |
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Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:13:13 -0000 |
Completely with ED on this ! Thanks for the link Ed ... Just saved me a job
:-)
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org]
Sent: 19 January 2007 02:55
To: Brooks, Jason
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Old Files
On 1/18/2007 2:47 PM, Brooks, Jason wrote:
> My manager has just posed a question to me to answer. The scenario is
> that we have a multitude of old files, dating to the 1980s, that are
> being backed up weekly. Many of the files are of a significant size
> and have a significant impact on our backup capacity. In an effort to
> reduce backup sizes and windows and free up resources, he wants to
> basically date filter a backup and archive that.
>
> For instance, create a policy and backup all files dated prior to
> 2002. Obviously, I can find nothing in the bare NBU that will do that.
> Does anyone know of a NBU product/hack that could do this?
The product is Enterprise Vault.
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/agents_options_details.jsp?pcid=
1018&pvid=322_1&aoid=406
It ain't cheap and isn't a hack. It's a serious archiving solution for
serious archiving problems.
Don't forget that you actually have 2 problems, not 1. You don't just
want to be able to archive the files. You probably want to be able to
get them back :-)
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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