Steve said:
My previous experience with DDS-2 was very unhappy -- too much
maintenance, too much downtime, too many ever-changing recommendations
about what brand of media to use, etc.
...(The only single-tape solution in my price range is VXA, which sounds
very nice, but there is NO WAY I
Andrew said:
Hey Gowan...wanna buy a few hundred Syquest 200s? How about 5.25" MO's?
:)
Yuck yuck. Yep, we've scrapped plenty of SyQuests too. A perfect example to
prove my point! The most widely accepted industry standard at one time, yet
driven out of business by Iomega's product. Could it
Mark said:
Gowan, what type of throughputs are you getting and what spec machine do
you use as a server?
Server is a Dell Poweredge 1300 with a single Pentium 3/450 and 256Mb RAM.
Throughput ranges from 171Mb/sec on local volumes down to 2Mb/sec on a fully
throttled (20% cpu time) remote mail
Oh yes - also compare after store is enabled.
-gf
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Steve said:
...In my particular case, I need to specify everything I need for a two year
time span (which in
my case means two drives plus all tapes and cleaning tapes, etc.) on a
single purchase order.
... I cannot tolerate the risk that my VXA drives may go bad a year from now
and that no one
Steve said:
...Your promotional drive prices are very nice. The "External Retrospect
Bundle" for $750...
If you are interested in the Server product, this might not be the best buy.
Forgoing the desktop Retrospect version in the bundle and buying the Server
version outright from Buy.com at $430
BINGO!
Matt had the answer - change the binding order of the NICs and *poof* the
misbehaving client is now visible to the backup server! I overlooked
checking that setting simply because Microsoft moved the binding tab to such
a screwy place in Win2K (you really have to root for it,
In response to my rhetorical query, Eric said:
...The architecture of Retrospect for Windows is NOT a port of the Mac
product;
it has been completely redesigned from the ground up...What would a "defined
Wintel heritage" have given us?...
Point taken. I definitely agree that Incremental-Plus is
