1.Identifies the media needed for restore.

2.Brings the media from a vault, enters the media in the HP StorageWorks DLT 4115w Library or other device and then scans the media.

3.Selects the specific object to be restored using the List From Media option, if the media are not in the IDB.

4.Performs the restore.

Company ABC

ABC is a high growth software engineering company with headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. As a software engineering outsourcer for multinational partners, ABC transparently sets up multi-site project teams and the accompanying infrastructure to seamlessly execute a wide array of software engineering projects. ABC has been growing at a rate of 30-40% per year. The growth rate is expected to slow down to 15 to 20% in the next five years.

Environment

This section describes the present-day hardware and software environment of ABC and how the data storage policy is implemented.

ABC has offices at three locations. The main hardware data at the three locations is given in Table 19 on page 313.

Table 19 Size of backup environment

Location

#Win

#Win

#UX

#UX

Current

Data (in

Current

 

servers

clients

servers

clients

data

5 Years)

devices

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABC Cape

7

55

11

40

100

250

5 DAT24*

Town

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABC

5

39

5

32

22

55

1 DAT24*

Pretoria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABC

3

21

6

59

16

40

1 DAT24*

Durban

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* HP StorageWorks DAT24 autoloader

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