Chapter 7: Evaluating Other Backup-Related Features and Options

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Summary

Several tools are available that allow you to monitor your backup domain. You can monitor many different elements of the total domain:

• Job activity

• Media usage

• Image status

• Device status and configuration

• Errors

• Daemon and process status

By using the different reports, you should be able to get a good idea of the status of the status of your backup domain, including the jobs and devices.

Now we will look at some of the other backup features and options that you might be interested in using. These can give you the capabilities to handle the backup and recovery requirements that go beyond the standard filesystems.

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