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

[Ari Finander]

Hi Alex,

What was the name of this software that you saw demonstrated?

Also, again on and off topic: Does anyone know of an /affordable/ online
backup solution, preferably hosted within australia, that has client
software for both windows and linux servers?

At this point I am desperate to get the backups squared away!

Regards,

Ari

On 8/6/06, Alex Polglaze <apolglaze at book-keepingnetwork.com.au> wrote:
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> Ari Finander wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 8/5/06, *Daniel Pearson* <daniel at flashware.net
> > <mailto:daniel at flashware.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
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