ECIUG '06: Enterprise Backup Development

Fangmin Wang, Ryerson University

• talked about how at Ryerson they use a third-party backup program
• uses Backup API (Application Programming Interface...how one piece of software communicates with another)
• went with alternate method becuase III's standard backup method is not very convenient...labour intensive, routine task...and Ryerson's IT dept. has a huge IBM "tape robot"
  
• on the iug list there's a linux verion of the backup script (contributed by Mike Lynch)
• they use the Millenium tape back up as a secondary back up