xxbja@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (Betty Jo Armstead) (06/14/91)
I would like to know if there is any interest in attending a focus group at the Sept 30- Oct 3 LISA V on centrally managed archive/backup for non-heterogeneous unix systems including mainframes. I have a particular interest in Unitree and AFS and would like to propose a focus group along these lines at LISA V. If there is interest I would not object to broadening the scope to other solutions. I would prefer the emphasis be on requirements/problems and not vendor proposed solutions. I will be glad to summarize and if interest warrants make a proposal to the LISA program committee for such a focus group. -- Betty Jo Armstead SVERDRUP Technology Inc. 21000 Brookpark Rd.Ms 142-2 Phone:216-433-5086 Nasa Lewis Research Center FAX: 216-433-8000 Cleveland Ohio 44135 From: xxbja@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov
scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) (06/18/91)
xxbja@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (Betty Jo Armstead) writes: >I would like to know if there is any interest in attending a focus >group at the Sept 30- Oct 3 LISA V on centrally managed archive/backup >for non-heterogeneous unix systems including mainframes. > . . . I would >prefer the emphasis be on requirements/problems and not vendor proposed >solutions. I will be glad to summarize and if interest warrants make >a proposal to the LISA program committee for such a focus group. Judging from past LISAs and the LISA BOFs at USENIX I'd be stunned if less than 50 people were interested. Go for it. -- "FACT: less than 10% of the psychiatrists in the US are actually practicing cannibals." Rod Johnson
jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) (06/21/91)
xxbja@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (Betty Jo Armstead) writes: >I would like to know if there is any interest in attending a focus >group at the Sept 30- Oct 3 LISA V on centrally managed archive/backup >for non-heterogeneous unix systems including mainframes. > . . . I would >prefer the emphasis be on requirements/problems and not vendor proposed >solutions. I will be glad to summarize and if interest warrants make >a proposal to the LISA program committee for such a focus group. I won't be at LISA V, but I would like to hear/see the results of such a discussion. I'm presently toying with the idea for handling such a situation on my network, and would be greatly interested in any ideas voiced on this topic. For the sake of discussion, here's a list of my desires for such a system (not in any particular order: 1. A standard backup file format. 2. The ability to perform backups of many (active) disks/machines at one time. 3. Data encryption. 4. Data compression. 5. A historical database for help in locating files. 6. Tape volume management. 7. Error recovery. (Definitely not #7 in importance.) There are probably major considerations I haven't begun to take into account, which is why I'd like to hear from others... -John Eisenmenger Dept. of Electrical Engineering Duke University