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And lo on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:42:27 -0000, Jim Henderson
<nos### [at] nospam com> did spake, saying:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:33:14 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:
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>>> I recall from my NetWare 4 days that it was one of a very few that used
>>> GFS style backups - which are/were more popular on mainframe systems.
>>
>> Might have been Arcserve, rings bells.
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> I don't believe Arcserve has ever used GFS rotations - though I haven't
> looked at the latest versions, so maybe they added it. Palindrone was
> bought by Arcadia IIRC, the original owners of Backup Exec. They got
> bought by Veritas, who then was bought by EMC IIRC (might've been
> Symmantec, though, now that I think of it).
Might not have been then, wasn't my section.
>>> Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
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>> They were lucky in that it had never happened, the only 'problem' they
>> had was the rolling restore window. The users had got into the habit of
>> renaming files etc. out to ensure they wouldn't get overwritten before
>> the archived monthly tape (yes they did at least have one of those) the
>> amount of old crap that just got left on the servers [shakes head].
>
> Users can be a pain, can't they?
I think they got fed up with "I deleted/changed this four days ago can I
get it back please?"- "No" so they worked around it. If the users start
doing things like this it's time to look at why.
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Phil Cook
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