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Message Posted: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 @ 12:54:46 GMT

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Virtually every RDBMS has its own, vendor specific data tool that is used to unload table data in some native format. This tool/utility usually provides the capability to backup/recovery logical objects in the RDBMS. For Teradata, that tool/utility is ARCMAIN. While ARCMAIN provides a way for getting the data out of and back into Teradata, it is up to the user to build all the necessary scripting, scheduling, tape and/or file management, etc. to make for a robust backup/recovery infrastructure.

NetVault basically provides most of the basic additional infrastructure required when building a backup/recovery solution, in a box. Understand that it is still the ARCMAIN tool/utility that is used even with NetVault, to produce the physical backup/archive data from Teradata objects backed up. Additionally, NetVault provides the framework to backup files/objects from non-Teradata environments also.

Cornelius Meade III
EDS - Consulting Services/BI/CRM

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