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Thomas_Bianco · 06-26-2006

background: my company uses a rotating 4 week backup plan, where sets of tapes are changed every week, and recycled every 4th week. there are no monthly or yearly backups. each week contains 6 daily differential backups and one full backup. our backu...

Thomas_Bianco · 04-18-2006

one of my unix servers started acting up about a month now, and the behavior just keeps getting stranger. the server in question is a Red Hat AS 3.0, using LVM, with 7 file systems, all e3fs. the server is running SVN. 1st, this system was backing up...

Thomas_Bianco · 06-27-2006

about the same time we did a media replace, recycled out old tapes. beyond that, the configuration has been frozen for since January.

Thomas_Bianco · 06-26-2006

i think your saying that all tapes of a given backup are marked "infinite" until the last tape goes off protection. there are two problems with that:1) this behavior is new, as of just over three weeks ago. this backup solution is over a year old, an...

Thomas_Bianco · 05-01-2006

well, we have our off topic. ran the tool, repaired the database, no errors, no change in behavior. now, please explain to me how database corruption can affect the communication between the media server and the unix agent that draws the selection li...

Thomas_Bianco · 04-27-2006

could i please get some kind of response to this? at least a "works fine for me", or even a off-topic technote from V/S Support? does ANYONE use the unix agent?

Thomas_Bianco · 04-20-2006

are you sure you want Incremental? assuming nightly backups, you'll need to restore (in a worst case) 6 backups to back. perhaps you want differential, esp. if you have low churn. differentials trade time at backup for time at restore by getting ever...

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