Clay1
MIS
- Jun 18, 2001
- 1
Email I sent to Veritas support:
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Am I crazy or does the book that comes with BEX 8.5 kinda leave a bit to be desired from a teaching viewpoint?
I'm an MCSE and net admin. This book uses many Veritas terms before any type of explanation is given. The index doesn't even have the word "scratch" in it. Most vendors educate you by defining things first, then tell you to use them this way and that way...
Moving forward:
We just bought a Dell server and BEX 8.5. We bought the autoloader option with 8 slots. I loaded 7 tapes and a cleaning tape in the proper slots and labled them.
Without more frustration and being forced to attend Veritas school, would you please just give me some simple and clear instructions for setting this thing up?
Here is all I want to do...
The drive is a DDS4 unit with a max capacity of 7x40gig=280gigs compressed. I just want to have 2 magazines with 7 tapes each that I can swap out every month. I would like all 7 tapes to be considered one big group of available tape for backing up. I would like to do a full backup of the areas I select and have each job append to the tape after the last job. Each backup should be protected for at least a week.
The total amount of data backed up each night of the work week is usually 7 gigs. I figured we should be able to go for about 40 work days (assuming 2:1 compression) before anything should need to be overwritten. Then when the last tape in the drive (#7) is full, it should look at tape #1 and see that the overwrite protection has expired and overwrite it. The next night it should append the next 7gig job, the the next until the tape fills up and moves to tape #2...
Every month (or possibly each week) we want to swap magazines and have BEX keep track of what jobs are where and recognize when the magazines are changed.
Also, once a month we want to do a month end archive to one single tape and put it in a safe.
Isn't this fairly simple?
Thanks for your help and letting me express my frustrations with that funky manual. Things were easy with the single drive. Just change the tape every day and set each full backup job to overwrite...Done! When we wanted an archive tape we just labled it "Archive-month/year", popped it in on the 1st of the month then threw it in the safe. With 10 tapes we had 10 business days (2 weeks)of full data restoration always easily available and an easy archive each month.
This autoloader is now requiring me to get a degree in Veritas Backuptapology. Can you help an overloaded techno brother out?
Thanks Again... ;-)
Clay Villanueva, MCSE
Net admin USBI
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Am I crazy or does the book that comes with BEX 8.5 kinda leave a bit to be desired from a teaching viewpoint?
I'm an MCSE and net admin. This book uses many Veritas terms before any type of explanation is given. The index doesn't even have the word "scratch" in it. Most vendors educate you by defining things first, then tell you to use them this way and that way...
Moving forward:
We just bought a Dell server and BEX 8.5. We bought the autoloader option with 8 slots. I loaded 7 tapes and a cleaning tape in the proper slots and labled them.
Without more frustration and being forced to attend Veritas school, would you please just give me some simple and clear instructions for setting this thing up?
Here is all I want to do...
The drive is a DDS4 unit with a max capacity of 7x40gig=280gigs compressed. I just want to have 2 magazines with 7 tapes each that I can swap out every month. I would like all 7 tapes to be considered one big group of available tape for backing up. I would like to do a full backup of the areas I select and have each job append to the tape after the last job. Each backup should be protected for at least a week.
The total amount of data backed up each night of the work week is usually 7 gigs. I figured we should be able to go for about 40 work days (assuming 2:1 compression) before anything should need to be overwritten. Then when the last tape in the drive (#7) is full, it should look at tape #1 and see that the overwrite protection has expired and overwrite it. The next night it should append the next 7gig job, the the next until the tape fills up and moves to tape #2...
Every month (or possibly each week) we want to swap magazines and have BEX keep track of what jobs are where and recognize when the magazines are changed.
Also, once a month we want to do a month end archive to one single tape and put it in a safe.
Isn't this fairly simple?
Thanks for your help and letting me express my frustrations with that funky manual. Things were easy with the single drive. Just change the tape every day and set each full backup job to overwrite...Done! When we wanted an archive tape we just labled it "Archive-month/year", popped it in on the 1st of the month then threw it in the safe. With 10 tapes we had 10 business days (2 weeks)of full data restoration always easily available and an easy archive each month.
This autoloader is now requiring me to get a degree in Veritas Backuptapology. Can you help an overloaded techno brother out?
Thanks Again... ;-)
Clay Villanueva, MCSE
Net admin USBI