Hi Alex,<br>
<br>
What was the name of this software that you saw demonstrated?<br>
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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?<br>
<br>
At this point I am desperate to get the backups squared away! <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Ari<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Polglaze</b> <<a href="mailto:apolglaze@book-keepingnetwork.com.au">apolglaze@book-keepingnetwork.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Ari Finander wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 8/5/06, *Daniel Pearson* <<a href="mailto:daniel@flashware.net">daniel@flashware.net</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:daniel@flashware.net">daniel@flashware.net
</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> I've found that the built in Windows Backup program can work well,<br>> assuming its been well scripted and the tapes are in the drive ready<br>> to go for when the scheduled time is.
<br>><br>><br>><br>> Thanks for the input Daniel. I've read that in cases of disaster<br>> recovery it can only be used to restore to a system of very similar type<br>> of motherboard and CPU, is this accurate? I have only just started
<br>> investigating this option. Scripting is something I'm not so crash hot<br>> on, but the tapes are always in the drive when a backup is scheduled<br>> (it's just hard to tell with their Tapeware software if that's occuring).
<br>><br>><br>> What kind of data is being backed up, and of what capacity? Does it<br>> all fit on one tape, etc<br>><br>><br>> Yes, it all fits on one 40GB tape. It's office and scientific data as
<br>> well as a couple of databases.<br><br>FWIW, I went to a seminar the other day and they were demonstrating Windows back up,<br>complete system to to USB drive in a few seconds to a couple of minutes only. Then they
<br>deleted some of the operating system files, and of course the system wouldn't reboot.<br><br>They then restored the system from the back-up.<br><br>The whole exercise was done using an audience member to be the monkey and it took less
<br>than ten minutes from back-up, destruction, restore and then showing the working system again.<br><br>Very impressive. Further details available if wanted, but it is only for Windows and there<br>isn't and won't be, a Linux version in case you are wondering.
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