We're currently testing Novastor's Novanet
Web-backup. Plan to roll it out to our customers who would back up over
the Internet to our Storage Area Network (SAN). Take a look, www.novastor.com. Keeps logs of
the backups, and only compresses and backs up what was changed (incremental)....
This would also give you the option of something to resell to your customers, if
that's of any interest..
Peter
OLSI
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 6:59
AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Backup
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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From:
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To:
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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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>
>
> 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
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> 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
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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