They wouldn't let you do an onsite demo? My Austin area rep had no problem with it. I am nearing the end of my POC with them and some other vendors. They have been very helpful in proving that their software will do what they say it will. You should push them on that one. But to answer you question, it will pause and resume a job on request or on the fly if a restore is started and there are no drives available to do the restore. Restores have priority over backups so the backup is paused, tape ejected, restore tape inserted and read, then the backup tape is reinserted and the backup job continues from where it left off. Very cool.
Regards, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Commvault resumability question I just attended a Commvault demo yesterday at their Oceanport HQ yesterday and had a chance to go over a lot of their features. So far I'm very happy with what I've seen. Not having an in house demo install (something they are very reluctant to give us) is a sticking point so I need to reach out to others for practical feedback. They talk about their ability to resume backups based on checkpoints of data blocks already processed to tape (or another location). This is something that would really matter to me. For one thing I wouldn't need to purchase a spare tape drive that sits idle waiting for restore operations like I currently have and would have to buy in my new library. Since restores are a higher priority the backup or duplication job would pause, the tape being written to would eject, the restore tape would load and run and then the previous operation would start where it left off. I questioned Commvault heavily about this feature and they swear it works as advertised. I've since had an external source say that it kind of works but not nearly as well as Commvault claims. Who has experience with this feature and what are your thoughts on it? - Jer ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
