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the event of a disaster, as the catalog contains all information the backup software needs to restore data
to the clients.
This represents a minimum listing of the elements within the backup software that should be
monitored and reported on during the regular daily backup cycle. The data that is gathered as a result of
these monitoring reports can be combined with other data to produce other types of analysis that may
be useful to the environment as a whole.
Backup Servers
The data gathered from the backup software is only part of the answer. As has been discussed in
previous chapters, while the performance of the backup is largely gated by how fast the backup client
can move data, the total potential ...