On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:33, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > I can't agree with the statement "Do a disaster recovery? Then you never > need images, only incremental backups." > > That is EXACTLY why we need to do IMAGE backups. I don't agree. You need image backup for the disks with mails (I hope you don't store them on the os disks) and incremental backups for the os files.
> When our mail systems disk array died, it took >15 DAYS to restore > >15MILLION individual files. The slowness was due to OS overhead trying to > restore/register that many files Was this for the os of the client or the os of the TSM server? > TSM was constantly idle/waiting. Total > storage was only 400GB. If we would have had an IMAGE backup to restore > the affected filesystem and then did incremental restore from that point, > we feel the recovery would have been considerably shorter ! Ok, you are right, there is no single solution for the problem. Stef -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] �"Using Linux as bandwidth manager" � � �http://www.docum.org/
