[145] in Athena_Backup_System
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vrt@MIT.EDU)
Thu Dec 14 12:39:59 1995
From: vrt@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:39:48 GMT
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1) The system must work in a crippled fashion
2) Down time before restoration of service *
3) The system must restore tapes that are 6 months old.
4) the system must restore both volumes and server partitions
5) The system shall require no more action than the current system
6) A complete backup cycle should cover all of the data
7) Is there a req for the backup cycle time
8) req for performance
9) How big a universe should it deal with
10) max amount we would have to restore at one time
11) The system shall have the following documents: Programmer ref, Op guide
Admin guide, etc.
12) The system shall have a training plan associated with it
13) The system will deal with media errors on write.
14) The system shall keep a DB with the volume to tapes relationships
15) The system shall report its problems
16) The system shall report on a (weekly/daily) basis that things are happening
17) The system will reject incorrect tapes
18) The system shall have available the number of tape errors on a given tape
available
19) The system shall have an ascii interface
20) The system shall be able to backup every volume in all the cells we control
21) The system shall be able to describe the system
* Is this from when we notice it is down, or will it tell us.
Design critiria
1) The system Shall allow for different tape types
2) The system shall allow for different file servers (NFS vs AFS)
