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[Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?

2007-03-27 02:37:21
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Checking to see if millions of files are backed up?
From: wts at maine.edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:37:21 -0400
McCammont, Anderson (IT) wrote, in part:
> As a colleague of mine once put it: 'BANANA - Backups Are Not Archives,
> NOT ARCHIVES'.  Practise this mantra.  You should really think about
> rearchitecting.
>   

Archiving is a much harder problem than backup and restore!

IMHO, NetBackup has little enough success trying to be a good backup and 
restore system.  Trying to turn it into an archiving system might be a 
risky, expensive adventure. :-(

Just my opinion, wayne