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