These are the kind of tips I would hope to see on the Dantz website, too.
Providing a backup solution should be more than just providing the software
and the hardware. Demonstrating effective recovery options for a variety of
situations and platforms on the website will only add value to the software
for the user.
Thanks for your response, Malcolm. I will be updating our recovery
procedures to reflect your suggestions.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Malcolm McLeary
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:12 PM
> To: retro-talk
> Subject: Re: Retro Server 5 on NT 4
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> on 30/1/01 2:18 AM, Scott Dunn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Wow. I never thought of that. Temporary directories sound
> like they will
> > save my butt. Brilliant response!
> >
> > Would I use temp directories with win95/98?
>
> Absolutely!
>
> When faced with this situation with normal user PCs running
> Win9x I just
> format the disk, do a minimum OS install and then the
> Retrospect Client ...
> all in a temp directory. Reboot, add the client to the
> server and restore
> over the network.
>
> In preparation for this situation I setup one Win9x machine
> the way I want
> it then do a full backup. I can then use this backup to configure new
> machines or fix broken ones.
>
> Other people ghost one disk onto another or even a CD-R, but
> I find using
> Retrospect over the network more convenient. In an office
> which has several
> hardware configurations it tends to be simpler with
> Retrospect to just do a
> full backup BEFORE letting users use the machine so the "as supplied"
> configuration can be re-applied when necessary.
>
> Cheers, Malcolm
>
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