using hp 1533 dat tape drives. (capacity 4-8 gb with compression)
Snapback only works with SCSI tape drives -- the hard disks can be scsi or
ide...
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From: Chapel Services Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 5:30 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Backup
> What kind of tape are you using?
>
> Lee
>
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> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Backup
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>
> We have been using SnapBack Live on all of our servers. It is GREAT! It
> will backup your entire hard disk track by track, sector by sector to
allow
> for a complete system restoral from a floppy. It also does the backup
> process "live"- -- it doesn't require downing the server.
>
> We are running 6 Windows NT4 servers (sp4) and run snapback on all of them
> once a day. I had to recover from a defective drive last week -- I just
> bought a new disk drive, installed it and booted to my recovery floppy. I
> was up and running in just under an hour. (we have since added a second
> scsi controller and disk to mirror this drive -- it was our primary dns
> server)
>
> They have a trial version on their website. It times out in 30 days. BUT
> they give you a "lite" version for free that doesn't time out. The only
> limitation is that the "lite" version requires the server to be "down"
> during the backup.
>
> We swear by this product!
>
> Rich Badish
> WEB-Comm Technologies
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dominic Willett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:46 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Backup
>
>
> > I want to start a more technical backup of the system (registry etc.) I
> > currently only back up my web host directories. This probably sounds
> > dumb....and agree now. I do not want to go through reinstalling users
> etc.
> >
> > Any suggestions on back up software that is well automated to do daily
> > backups to tape/jazz/ditto/etc? Price is not as important as
> functionality
> > and reliability.
> >
> > Thank you for any help!
> >
> > Also to the person asking about how Imail does on different specs, I
> started
> > testing the Imail server on our test server which only was a 400 mhz, 32
> mb
> > ram computer. I never had any problems with system usage on the test
> server
> > was more than happy with the resources that were being used. That
helped
> > make the decision for me! Imail is an excellent program and well
written.
> > (Anything that can run on NT with only 32 mb ram is a good package, no?)
> >
> > Dominic
> >
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