Backup & Recovery TSM update

Ms. Namita Iyer, delivered an awesome talk on 'Backup & Recovery' - an Open Source perspective to a highly participative and thrilled audience.

Namita Iyer discussed about the basic need of a backup. She talked about full backups, differential and incremental backups, backup of backup - auxillary copies - inline aux copies, online backup (backup as users are accessing) - quiescing and snapshots, backup of different applications - mail, database, backup complete disks - block level backup, backup to different media - tape, optical, reusing backup media - pruning unwanted backups, restores: search backed up data - indexes - and selectively restore, different backup configurations - backup to NAS, SAN, Lan-free, Server-free (proxy).

Namita also discussed about Recovery points, RPOs and RTOs - Replication and continuous replication (app aware) with recovery points, add-on features of backup - compression, encryption

A very important highlight of the discussion was, Archival - how is it different from backup ?.ILM solutions for file and mail.

Next up in discussion was features offered and issues with Commercial backup vendors - CV, Veritas, CA brightstor, EMC Networker (legato).

Namita Iyer talked at length about OpenSource backup product Amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.

Manoj, Chaitanya, Vimal and Mahen came up with real life observations in the context of recovery. Vimal delivered an impromptu explanation of the MD5 vulnerability and how it came to light.

Thanks to everybody who made the TSM such a memorable event.

Folks, please visit the Backup & Recovery TSM photogallery at
http://www.twincling.org/node/103