I couldn't find second start (second copy?), though.
Jonathan
At 08:59 AM 9/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
Does anyone have a URL for
second start
snap back live
What we trying to do is this...
1. Do backups across the network to a "backup sever" with 50 GB of Ultra/ATA hard drives (cheaper for
backups, but fast enough for this use).
The backup server contains several folders ( /server1 /server2 /server3 ), etc... where backup image
files can be placed for the right server
2. Backup to tape from that backup server
This way, we dump everything off of the "live" server much faster, and let the slower tape process run off
the "not live" backup server.
Also, when we want to restore, it is much faster to do it off this backup server than from the tape. But the
tape is the "backup" of the disk backup.
Any thoughts on whether either of these would work well for this, where to find them, and
their quality?
Also, FYI, for those interested, we also now do RAID/1 with the Adaptec mirror card as part of our backup
pan (sorry - don't remember the model # off hand). What is really cool is that it is a combo SCSI card &
RAID card, so we are building servers that are NOT SCSI on board, but then adding
this card. The cost savings ends up paying for about half of the card, and with the RAID/1, we have an added
level of safety (don't need RAID/5 because we aren't spanning the data - just don't need that much storage
on each machine).
One limitation - you can't just the RAID one existing drive. You have to create the array as blank and
then add your content to it. I've been told that you can create an array (of 2 drives that appears as a single
drive) and then do a drive copy from your old drive to the array but haven't tried it.
Chris Ulrich
At 07:23 PM 9/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
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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Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Backup
> What kind of tape are you using?
>
> Lee
>
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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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