There is one sentence that confuses me about Ms. Fisher's recent CW article:
"One major issue Veritas users cited with NetBackup 6.0 is that when a backup job indicates it's complete, it often has only backed up 1K files, so there's no data to restore. " Whoa, that DOES sound scary. Backed up files that can't be restored?!? But what does that sentence really mean? Especially the reference to "only backed up 1K files"? Is that meant to symbolize "1000 files"? My suspicion that there is a tiny grain of truth in the above wording, and maybe a typo... and that the "issue" being described here is NBU behavior that falls squarely in the category of HARMLESS. I think that Ms Fisher is trying to describe the way the NBU activity monitor displays an incremental backup job that didn't find any changed files : -the job is listed as complete (status is 0) -the amount of data backed up is 1KB -the number of files backed up is zero (and naturally, there are no files to restore...) Note that NetBackup has behaved this way forever, as far as I know. Is there anyone on this list (perhaps someone who was interviewed by Ms Fisher) who can confirm or deny my suspicion above? If I'm right, I think that sentence is a case of either incompetent technical journalism, or an intentional distortion of the facts that crosses an ethical line. If I'm wrong, I'd like to hear more details of the problem being described above. thanks! rob _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu