Looking for a backup product that has the ability to analyze a volume and know when files are legitimately deleted in a disaster recovery situation.
Consider this scenario. Full backup on Friday with incrementals running everyday. Say your array dies on Tuesday for whatever reason. So you go through the process of restoring from the full on friday and each subsequest incremental after that. You get your array to where you think it should be. But on Monday, you had a bunch of files that a user deleted that do not need to be there anymore, but are finding that these files were restored by the backup. So you are now presented with a bunch of files that do not need to be there, but are there because the backup program doesn't know they shouldn't be there. It just dumps data from tape to disk.
What I am looking for is a program that has the ability to know that a file was deleted, so when you are restoring, the backup compares what it has in it's database with what it sees on the volume. If the files were on a backup, but are not there now, then do not restore these files.
Any one know of software with this functionality. I am currently using ARCServe 11.5 to 12 and ARCServe support has verified that they do not have this functionality.
Thank you for any input on this.
Cheers!!
Consider this scenario. Full backup on Friday with incrementals running everyday. Say your array dies on Tuesday for whatever reason. So you go through the process of restoring from the full on friday and each subsequest incremental after that. You get your array to where you think it should be. But on Monday, you had a bunch of files that a user deleted that do not need to be there anymore, but are finding that these files were restored by the backup. So you are now presented with a bunch of files that do not need to be there, but are there because the backup program doesn't know they shouldn't be there. It just dumps data from tape to disk.
What I am looking for is a program that has the ability to know that a file was deleted, so when you are restoring, the backup compares what it has in it's database with what it sees on the volume. If the files were on a backup, but are not there now, then do not restore these files.
Any one know of software with this functionality. I am currently using ARCServe 11.5 to 12 and ARCServe support has verified that they do not have this functionality.
Thank you for any input on this.
Cheers!!