[Veritas-bu] How do I backup thee, Let me count the ways .

Austin Murphy austin.murphy at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 10:58:36 CDT 2007


On 7/19/07, briandiven at northwesternmutual.com
<briandiven at northwesternmutual.com> wrote:
>
> Here are some of the options that I thought of for starters ... can anyone
> add to the list?
>
> Traditional direct to tape backup via media server
> Direct to tape via SAN media server/client
> Snapshot
> Mirrored disk
> Proprietary application backup to flat file first
> Database exports to disk first
> Agent based hot backups
> D2D2T or VTL type solutions

Another option would be to grab raw partitions instead of individual
files.  a.k.a Flashbackup.

I wrote a good chunk of the wikipedia page on the topic.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup

It goes into some detail on this topic.  Criticism is welcome...

Austin



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