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Twelve steps to recovery: my co-dependent relationship with Tivoli
Griffiths K., Kramolis T.  User services (Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services, Orlando, Florida, Oct 7-10, 2007)135-138.2007.Type:Proceedings
Date Reviewed: Jan 11 2008

Over the past decade, the pervasiveness of the Internet has resulted in an astounding growth of digital content. This growth is not about to slow down anytime soon. Thus, back-up and recovery of this digital content is becoming increasingly important. However, as with learning other technologies, back-up and recovery applications involve a “teething period,” for both system administrators and end users.

This paper highlights the pain points involved in setting-up and maintaining data-backup and recovery applications. The paper begins by providing an introduction to Baylor University. It then goes on to describe the information technology (IT) infrastructure setup, and the needs of a typical user at the university. This provides a useful landscape to understanding the need for a back-up application.

The paper goes on to describe the process (in 12 steps) of setting-up and fine-tuning Tivoli as a back-up application at the university. These steps provide a useful list of the pitfalls that the authors faced while deploying a back-up application, which can be useful to other system administrators looking to set up similar applications. However, the paper would have been more useful if the authors had described: the evaluation process used before Tivoli was picked as a back-up application; the details of the type of back-up (for example, incremental versus full) used, and why; and, their experience when recovering backed-up data.

As digital content continues to grow, back-up and recovery applications will continue to grow in importance. The paper provides a good starting point for system administrators who wish to deploy back-up and recovery applications at their data centers.

Reviewer:  Kiran Madnani Review #: CR135099
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Error Handling And Recovery (D.2.5 ... )
 
 
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