Re: Hubs/Switches

2000-09-18 Thread David Ross
A autosensing hub has a built-in 2 port switch. Any 100Mbps ports are repeated together, as are the 10Mbps ports. The built in switch connects the 100Mb group to the 10Mb group. Which, by the way, creates an interesting problem when using a tool such as EtherPeek to record Ethernet

Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Graham, Total Coverage Limited
Hi I've been using Retrospect very successfully for some while now, backing up our small Mac LAN to recordable CDs. However our company has grown some over time and the use of CD-R is no longer a real option as it takes too long to do a full backup of the 30GB or so of data on the LAN. I am

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Daniel Knight
However our company has grown some over time and the use of CD-R is no longer a real option as it takes too long to do a full backup of the 30GB or so of data on the LAN. I like VXA. Tapes hold 33 MB before compression, although I haven't hit that level on my home network -- probably due to

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Julia Frizzell
At 8:58 AM +0100 9/18/00, Graham, Total Coverage Limited wrote: Hi I've been using Retrospect very successfully for some while now, backing up our small Mac LAN to recordable CDs. However our company has grown some over time and the use of CD-R is no longer a real option as it takes too long to

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Ben Liberman
At 8:58 AM +0100 9/18/00, Graham, Total Coverage Limited wrote: For this comparison, I've included the VXA-1 at the promotional price since it's been extended through Aug and is available to everyone. The VXA promotion has been extended through Sept.

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Keepsake
Graham Mitchell said: I am therefore looking for an economical, reliable tape based solution that can handle the job. I've read discussions about using IDE drives. You can get 40 GB drives for around $200. At that price, you can get five drives, use one to write your backups to and then swap

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Church Initiative WebMaster
Also, in Graham's chart, the VXA V-17 media (33 gig native) is listed at $67. Anyone know where I can find it at this price? The best that I've found so far is ~72.50 http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00074283/03276001.htm Stiles Watson Director of Information Services The Church

RE: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Geoff Rainville
The VXA promotion has indeed been extended through September, but is not available to our friends in the U.K.: limited to US and Canada only, since it's a direct-sales promotion through the web store, and we don't (yet!) sell in Europe. We're working on it. Egghead offers a great price right now

4.3 Exp/iMac FormatRestore/ZipUSB

2000-09-18 Thread Stanton Mitrany
Hi! I've got a problem I hope you can address! As my subject suggests, I need to successfully execute a complete hard drive restoration from a CDR backup set made with Retrospect Express Backup 4.3 on my Rev. B iMac running OS 8.6. Since I have unstable directory file sectors on my hard drive,

Re: backup strategy - followup

2000-09-18 Thread Jon Gardner
on 9/14/2000 8:49 AM, jakob krabbe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use a 13-tape rotation. We swap tapes during the day on Monday, full (recycle) backup on Monday night, normal backups Tue-Sat nights. In addition, we have an FTP server offsite with one FTP backup set on it. Every two weeks we

Re: backup strategy - followup

2000-09-18 Thread LEO
From: Jon Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:21:08 -0500 To: retro-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup strategy - followup FTP:ing stuff off-site seems little overkill for us, but if the VXA we bought was shipped with an

Re: Backing up Citrix MetaFrame server

2000-09-18 Thread Jon Gardner
on 9/18/2000 1:08 PM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're looking into a Citrix MetaFrame Windows application server for our network. I'd prefer to avoid the DAT backups the bidders are recommending and use Retrospect. Anyone familiar with the MetaFrame application server and how

Re: Advice requested: tape system

2000-09-18 Thread Matt Barkdull
I like VXA. Tapes hold 33 MB before compression, I'd be changing tapes every 3 seconds!!:) typo. Should be GB. -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:

Error -517?

2000-09-18 Thread Cory Rau
Anyone ever seen this one before? Can't access volume Backup Folder for Text Files on FMP_SERVER, error -517 (backup client is busy) 9/14/2000 1:03:55 AM: Execution incomplete We are backing up a Macintosh client to an NT machine in the middle of the night. None of the files we're backing up

Re: Backing up Citrix MetaFrame server

2000-09-18 Thread Dean Brissinger
on 9/18/2000 1:08 PM, Daniel Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're looking into a Citrix MetaFrame Windows application server for our network. I'd prefer to avoid the DAT backups the bidders are recommending and use Retrospect. Anyone familiar with the MetaFrame application server and