[plug] On and off topic - Fedora working with Win2003 SBS? Backup software recommendations for a DDS4 tape drive under 2003 SBS

[Alex Polglaze]

Ari Finander wrote:
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> On 8/5/06, *Daniel Pearson* <daniel at flashware.net 
> <mailto:daniel at flashware.net>> wrote:
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>     I've found that the built in Windows Backup program can work well,
>     assuming its been well scripted and the tapes are in the drive ready
>     to go for when the scheduled time is.
> 
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> 
> Thanks for the input Daniel. I've read that in cases of disaster 
> recovery it can only be used to restore to a system of very similar type 
> of motherboard and CPU, is this accurate? I have only just started 
> investigating this option. Scripting is something I'm not so crash hot 
> on, but the tapes are always in the drive when a backup is scheduled 
> (it's just hard to tell with their Tapeware software if that's occuring).
>  
> 
>     What kind of data is being backed up, and of what capacity? Does it
>     all fit on one tape, etc
> 
> 
> Yes, it all fits on one 40GB tape. It's office and scientific data as 
> well as a couple of databases.

FWIW, I went to a seminar the other day and they were demonstrating  Windows back up, 
complete system to to USB drive in a few seconds to a couple of minutes only. Then they 
deleted some of the operating system files, and of course the system wouldn't reboot.

They then restored the system from the back-up.

The whole exercise was done using an audience member to be the monkey and it took less 
than ten minutes from back-up, destruction, restore and then showing the working system again.

Very impressive. Further details available if wanted, but it is only for Windows and there 
isn't and won't be, a Linux version in case you are wondering.

Alex