A friend of mine used to work at Veritas[0] making enterprise data retention solutions. When I spoke about their product as being "making backups", he corrected me by saying:
We are not in the backup business. We are in the restoration
business.
Backups are boring. Restores, on the other hand, are often exciting.
If Seinfeld told a backup joke:
"You know how to take the backup, you just don't know how to restore the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup, the restoring. Anybody can just copy a file!"
Backups can be automated. Restores are a manual, heightened-attention, deep-focus process.
Correct. In data protection, backup is not the feature. Restore is the feature.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec
No. But, well, yes: if you use BE - you will need a restore pretty soon.
I'm the person who actually experienced BE walking around the file server and deleting files. Helpful suuport person had done the needful and said what this is not an issue and it wouldn't be reported as a bug.
"This is the business we've chosen."