Rewards and Risks
Rewards:
- Engineering business needs met
- “This backup method is pretty good, I didn’t even notice the system was being backed up.” - engineering manager
- Fully automated
- Fits within existing IS data archive methodologies
- Clean VOB backups that are simple to restore
- Documented and deployable process created
- From the time of equipment arrival, new servers are up and running in 5 business days - worldwide
Risks:
- Data is not mirrored during the backup process
- Resynchronization can take a long time as RAID resyncs all blocks, not just those used by UFS
- Archive tapes not verified on a regular basis due to current personnel resource constraints