On 11/13/97 00:02:12 you wrote:

dump makes for a fairly poor backup management solution. Ever try to maintain ~30 filers with around 600GB? We kinda found that our home grown scripts we're scaling to where we needed to be and found it increasinly harder to manage the whole mess.

Well, I admit, not 30. :) But hundreds of gigabytes, yes. The only real problem in terms of scalability was long restore times; that could be solved by breaking the backups into smaller chunks. But with snapshots the need for restores was very rare; I could see how this could easly be a more frequent need in a different environment.

Bruce