We use CommVault and DataDomain. It is very complex and expensive, and I hope we never need to restore from backup....
John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 12:00 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] love those db backups that span days. :( On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Alan Bourke<[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it depends on your backup policy and software, but wouldn't it > be cheaper overall to go out and buy a 2TB external drive and use that ? > -- ---------------------- They got that. hahahahaha USB is not your gigabit network. I have a single table of scanned images in the db that is approx 600 gig in size for this client. I have to chuckle when they < young punk who came up from telcom side of things> say that they have multiple SANs at this site. Every time he describes the hardware, it is just a RAID. But he uses the word SAN a lot. :) Anyway this client operates on all 4 time zones and they have a lot of db interaction early in the AM. That is reporting time before the west coast is even in the office. That gives me 6 hours maintenance window. The reindex job that runs on weekends takes just under 5 hours now. I have asked them to test a compression tool in backups but they won't consider it. Not sure who is queering the idea, maybe just going into one set of ears and dies a quick and quiet death there? They will NOT consider diff backups after I get the full one either. No idea why but NO. Makes me laugh! -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/00b201ca1207$a0c88f90$e259ae...@[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
