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I'm thinking about adding the Archival element to my Solstice Network Edition
backup server.  The manuals don't have anything like a "bullet-list" to
explain what is different between the standard "client backup" I'm familiar
with and the "Archive" feature I'm considering.

Anyone have a nuts & bolts synopsis for a person who has already Read
(or at least skimmed) The Fine Manuals?

Thanks in advance.

Tom Zillig

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Quote:> I'm thinking about adding the Archival element to my Solstice Network Edition
> backup server.  The manuals don't have anything like a "bullet-list" to
> explain what is different between the standard "client backup" I'm familiar
> with and the "Archive" feature I'm considering.

> Anyone have a nuts & bolts synopsis for a person who has already Read
> (or at least skimmed) The Fine Manuals?

(The problem is that user finishes a project, we archive it, six months
later user comes to us and wants one file back. Duh.)

Archives are saved forever (well, unless you bin the tapes) whereas
backups tend to be kept for a short time (of course, you can keep
backup tapes forever). You really want a twin-drive system and to clone
the archive tapes.

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