I used Backup Exec for our servers at both of my former jobs. Works great, especially if you need to back up both NT and UNIX.
Regards, Dustin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Chopin Cusachs > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Backup Tape Drive > > > > Jazz is a bit small for a backup. Already have CD-RW, but want to backup > a full partition and be able to restore booting from a floppy. > I've had good > service from ZIP drives -- have a parallel port one and two IDE > internal ones. > > Wonder if anyone has experience with Veritas backup software. Getting the > drive and accompanying software qualifies for an upgrade to Backup MyPc, > formerly Veritas Backup Executive, for about $30. That would > deal with the > concern raised by Tim Fournet about propietary format. Have a > few unreadable > diskettes written by Central Point Backup in the old, old days when I had > an internal drive that used the floppy controller. It wouldn't > work in a newer > machine, and the software doesn't seem to work with the floppies > in the newer > machine, either. > > I expect that within 5 years some form of DVD-R will be hardly > more expensive > than CD-R these days, at which point the tape will be history. > For the moment > I can get the drive and few tapes for no more than $100, and maybe even > cheaply upgrade to a good backup program that will work with > CD-RW as well. > > Choppy > > At 05:42 PM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > >I paid around $80 for the 2Gig Ditto Tape backup that I had. > The tapes were > >close to $30 a piece. Junk I say. That stuff was junk. A seperate hard > >drive sounds a lot better to me. Or possibly a Jaz drive. > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
