Don't laugh - this is a serious question that I have to respond to my management with.
Environment: TSM 3.7.3.8 on AIX 4.3.3 using 288gb SSA diskpools & 3494 atl w/3590E1a
drives
Clients: 50+ Novell 4.11 & 5.1 50+ WinNT 4.0 15+ HP-UX (10.0 & 11.0) V/K/N class
Daily incrementals on all, plus Oracle db/log archives (some daily, some weekly - 10+
instances)
Our (storage team) new number one priority is: "Verify that all the correct data from
each server is being backed up every time. Schedule meetings with every server owner
to get their sign off. Please give some thought to how we allow these users to verify
their data."
Our Oracle dba's control their own backups and do their own checking, so that isn't my
issue. The problem is the Wintel platforms (file/print servers with 100k's of files).
Now, I am all for reliable backups, but I am at a loss to figure out just how to go
about this, short of running a massive report on every backup/archive file in the
database every day and posting it to our intranet for browsing by the .001% of our
members who will care. And I'm pretty confidant that allowing everyone access to
every server's web gui so that they can "pretend" to do a restore just to view this
info, is not the right approach either.
So, am I missing something really basic here? Has anyone else solved this problem?
Steve Schaub
Haworth, Inc
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