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Company ABC
ABC is a high growth software engineering company with headquarters in Cape
Town, South Africa. As a software engineering outsourcer for multinational partners,
ABC transparently sets up multi-site project teams and the accompanying infrastructure
to seamlessly execute a wide array of software engineering projects. ABC has been
growing at a rate of 30-40% per year. The growth rate is expected to slow down to
15 to 20% in the next five years.
Environment
This section describes the present-day hardware and software environment of ABC
and how the data storage policy is implemented.
ABC has offices at three locations. The main hardware data at the three locations is
given in
Table 19
Table 19 Size of backup environment
Location
ABC Cape
Town
ABC
Pretoria
ABC
Durban
* HP StorageWorks DAT24 autoloader
Identifies the media needed for restore.
Brings the media from a vault, enters the media in the HP StorageWorks
DLT 41 15w Library or other device and then scans the media.
Selects the specific object to be restored using the List From Media option,
if the media are not in the IDB.
Performs the restore.
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