Re: [SAGE] current state of backup software

[Michael Barrow <michael@michaelbarrow.name>]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek J. Balling wrote:

>
> On Oct 30, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Michael Barrow wrote:
>> I don't know about TSM, so I won't comment on how it would handle  
>> this situation. However, with NetBackup, you would just have it  
>> synthesize a full backup from the previous full (real or  
>> synthetic) and all of the subsequent incremental backups.
>
> But this is all predicated on the presumption that "the first copy  
> was good". If the source of all the derivatives is bad, corrupted,  
> etc., there's *no* redundancy in such a backup solution.
>

Make sure your backups work!



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Michael Barrow
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