We're considering Polycenter Save and Restore to do our backups. We currently
back up about 110 systems around campus with homegrown scripts, but it
is becoming too unwieldy to continue doing the saves that way. For those
of you running the above software, I have some questions:
1. The documentation states that the database consumes about 10% of what
is saved. If this is true, and we're saving at least 1gb per system
on fullsaves, that's a lot of disk space. How are you handling that?
2. Have you ever had to restore the root and/or /usr partition of a system
that has had a disk crash on those partitions? How hard was it?
3. We're going to be running the client software on a variety of systems:
Alphas running Digital Unix, Suns running SunOS & Solaris 2, SGIs running
IRIX 4.x & 5.x, DECstations running Ultrix 4.x. Have you had any problems
with the clients on those systems?
Any other things that you can think of would be appreciated.
Mike Iglesias Internet: iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine phone: (714) 824-6926
Office of Academic Computing FAX: (714) 824-2069
Central Computing Support
Received on Thu Mar 23 1995 - 16:45:37 NZST