Backup-to-disk folders

[Ravi_Chetal]

Hello everyone,
Wondering if any one can shed some light on this. What is the purpose/advantage/disadvantage of the backup-to-disk folder option in 9.1? We recently had a problem and our tape drive died on us. I have since been using the backup-to-disk option for my backup jobs. What I want to find out is that if this is a viable solution to a tape drive. Are there any disadvantages to using this? The throughput is excellent using this option but are there other drawbacks that we need to be aware of?

Regards
Ravi

[Joshua_Small]

- You probably wont find yourself rotating that hard disk. Whilst you can keep several different backups on one drive, if it fails at the same time as a server, you're in trouble
- You won't be taking a disk offsite for emergency purposes

[Ravi_Chetal]

That all is fine. Are there otehr issues that I need to keep in mind?

[Gauri_Ketkar]

Hi Ravi,

Refer the Admin Guide for BEWS 9.1 for the detail Information on Backup-to-Disk Feature : page 149


VERITAS Backup Exec (tm) 9.1 for Windows Servers Administrator's Guide (English)

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/266190.htm


Revert for any further query.

Thank you,
Gauri

Additional Information :
For information on the recent VERITAS Backup Exec security vulnerabilities, including links to the downloads for the necessary hotfixes, please refer to the following document:
Patch summary for Security Advisories VX05-001, VX05-002, VX05-003, VX05-005, VX05-006, VX05-007

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277429.htm



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