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.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_Exec

▲ voiceofunreason 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Backups are boring. Restores, on the other hand, are often exciting.

	▲	BLKNSLVR 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Backups can be automated. Restores are a manual, heightened-attention, deep-focus process.

▲ returningfory2 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Correct. In data protection, backup is not the feature. Restore is the feature.

▲ justsomehnguy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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.

▲ Paracompact 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"This is the business we've chosen."