Re: VMBACKUP/E 1.0 and the SFS

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From: Tim Campbell
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1993 14:08

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On Fri, 5 Feb 1993 07:43:15 EST Ken Koester said:
>Yes, as a result of this, we have to follow every disaster backup immediately
>with a full backup so that our users don't try to restore files from the
>disaster (off-site) tapes.  Very kludgy--much rather dump the catalog instead.
>For real fun, try restoring a storage group or a file pool some time.


Our disaster backups are also our weekly/monthly full backups. We use twins
to prevent users from requesting tapes that may be offsite. Of course, the
ability to use twin cartridges is impacted by the number of drives you can
allocate to backups.


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From: SNOJTC@VM.SAS.COM (Tim Campbell)
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Subject: Re: VMBACKUP/E 1.0 and the SFS
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