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OSU Adopts Hybrid Backup Approach
5/24/2007
Tivoli database that tracks the objects backed up. STORServer, with Tivoli, encrypts the data in the database as it conducts its nightly backups. The encrypted, backed-up data is unique to the database it comes from. "I can't take the Tivoli backup tape out of my machine, put it anywhere else, and read it at all," Utt explained, without the corresponding databases.Also, under the earlier system the foundation backed up its production servers only. Because of the time saved using STORServer, Utt is now able to back up all of the foundation's 27 servers. "We are now able to redo a whole system in less than a day," Utt said. "It used to take us multiple days and still didn't provide us with the kind of data protection that we have now."
The system also features extensive reporting for tracking backup. From within STORServer, Utt said, he can monitor each client performance, along with a log of errors. "[It] gives a summary at the end of what objects it updated, which expired, and which failed, so you can easily find what you need.... I didn't have that at all [before]."
Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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