inventory management techniques
Use of the inventory management techniques incremental-forever strategy can considerably reduce the time taken by the
backup in comparison to the full backup. The disadvantage of this is that over time
the backed up files can become distributed over numerous tapes. This is critical for the
restoring of large file systems because tape mounts cost time. This is where the media
manager comes into play. It can ensure that only files from a single computer are located
on one tape. This reduces the number of tape mounts involved in a restore process, which
means that the data can be restored more quickly.
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