I so wish we could do this. Unfortunately, backups/restores are considered an afterthought both by the vendors and customer management. In general, data lifecycle management has gotten to be a thornier problem over the years, and a lot of people deal with that by ignoring it until it's a serious issue.
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:30:23PM +0000, Prather, Wanda wrote: > Taking opportunity to mount soapbox on this issue: > > I have SO many customer that are facing this problem. > Vendors of giant NAS devices *should* be providing better, decent solutions > to back them up. > It's very do-able, it's just that crappy vendors don't care what they dump on > you. > > NetApp, for example, has implemented their SnapDiff API that provides true > incrementals, and it works. > I have no other reason to plug NetApp, I'm just pointing out that other > vendors could do the same thing, if they wanted to - it's not impossible. > > I know, in most cases backup folks have hardware dropped on us without any > input into the purchase, and we are just stuck with it. > BUT the only thing that is going to solve this industry-wide problem in the > long run, is whenever tech people hear there is a purchase going down, we > step in and tell management STOP! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?, and boycott > vendors who inflict bad technology on us when they could do better. > > Soapbox off. > > W -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
