Thanks for your reply, > How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? A User profile is restored as an entity. It's spread over so many tapes because some files in a profile change daily and some never do. On the tapes the profile data is mixed with the rest of the drives data (the user profiles are only 20GB out of 160GB).
Thomas Rupp -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Otto Schakenbos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2003 17:22 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Backup User profiles How can 20Gb be spread over a lot of tapes? If your tapes are really that small consider a hardware upgrade. an option to consider is image backup (when you have bigger tapes) this will not help you with single file restores but in case of total disaster it will be time saver (and job maybe). one scenario could be do a image backup every week or so to tape do normal inc to a disk-library.(device class disk) so no long search and mount times. (also not so secure maybe but thats why you have you image backup on offsite tape) Remember that (to my knowledge but not sure have to look it up) you can't get single files back from an image backup so you need both. regards Otto Schakenbos PC-Support TEL: +49-7151/502 8468 FAX: +49-7151/502 8489 MOBILE: +49-172/7102715 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TFX IT-Service AG Fronackerstrasse 33-35 71332 Waiblingen GERMANY
