Software for backups

Fri Oct 24 14:08:46 PDT 2003

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>RE: the ORA book.
>I'm really not in love with it.  ORA has tended to be TOO thorough.
>Rather than best practice, they take an expert and make him document
>EVERY practice/product.  Which means that immediately a majority of
>the book is useless.  WEre they not so complex in themselves, I'd
>imaging "Unix SMTP mail" would have sections on
>qmail/postfix/sendmail/exim and the commercial ones (sendmail/stalker,etc).
>
>Immediately only 1 of those sections is relevant leaving the others
>as treekillers.
>
>The printing books and backup book tend towards that.

True.  Preston himself would probably argue more towards
using 3rd party backup apps--at least that is the impression
I got from his LISA tutorials and his BOFs on backups.
Though he would tell you that both have problems, but both
have strengths as well (right tool for the job question).

He gained a lot of credibility with me when he said during
one of his LISA classes that he'd changed his mind about DB's
and NAS (was against, now is pro), and went on to explain
why.  Willingness to change your mind as you gain a better
understanding of technology and publically stating your
changed opinion and backing it up tells me he's not willing
to rest on his laurels.

I'd recommend his web site for quick overviews of all the
free stuff out there, as well as FOMs on NetBackup and
Legato, and the usual stuff..

<http://www.storagemountain.com/>

=Nadine=