mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote:
> One of our clients has been using ontape successfully for some time but
> have been throwing away logical logs on the basis that they could
> restore to the previous night.
>
> I have persuaded them to look at onbar and to backup their logs and
> after a failure to get it working correctly with ISM they are now
> implementing a BakBone NetVault Storage Manager based solution. This
> is not without difficulty with the dialects of jargon - but we are
> getting there slowly.
>
> However their next challenge is that they would like to run both ontape
> and onbar for a period of time to backup the same server. I don't
> think that should present a problem - or does anybody think or know
> different?
>
> regards
>
> Malcolm
>
>
Not a good idea - once you archive logical logs with one tool, they won't be
available for archive with the other tool. In short, you'll have plenty of
archives, but it's unlikely that you will be able to restore to where you
want, or, in case of onbar, there's even the possibility that you won't be
able to restore at all
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Ciao,
Marco
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