Gregory,

Can you write a little more about your environment?  How much data are you
backing up?  What hardware/software are you currently using?  What is your
system availability requirement?

Bill Lancaster


At 06:58 PM 8/4/97 -0400, Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER wrote:
>What would you do if you were me (I mean, besides suicide or extensive
>plastic surgery)?
>
>Our original plan was to backup the data groups in each production
>account before and after nightly processing. After processing, we would
>then stream a differential backup (since the weekly full backup),
>excluding those data groups in production accounts that we had just
>backed up. We wanted this to be unattended, with third-party software
>paging the on-site ops if any part of this flushed its job. So we wanted
>to use auto-reply, and just have ops to swap tapes each morning. We
>would like to keep this as close to free from human intervention as
>possible. But the absence of an append option for TurboSTORE seems to
>preclude that.
>
>We are considering all options: third-party backup software that allows
>appending to tape, or changing this backup procedure to allow as much
>recovery as possible but just backing up once, or coming up with some
>really great hack to allow us to append to tapes, or just insisting that
>ops keep inserting tapes throughout the night. Considered opinions
>welcome.
>
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