I just installed an external Exabyte M2 tape drive on my backup server. Holy
mother of Elvis, does this thing smoke. 400 MB/min thruput on local volumes,
up to 300 MB/min over the network. In case you're looking to spend a big wad
of money on a tape backup system, consider this one.
(Backup
Can someone whip up a Filemaker app that will calculate the $/GB of any
given backup solution based on the cost of the mechanism and the number of
media required? Different backup systems make sense for different size
installations, obviously.
top of the world,
Luke Jaeger, Technology
Here's how you make Retrospect 4.2 recognize "Macintosh Disk" backup sets
(created on earlier versions of Retrospect) on mounted disk images.
1. In the Finder, duplicate your Retrospect app
2. Open up the copy in ResEdit
3. Double-click on the STR# resource
4. When that opens, double click on
: Announcing Retrospect 4.3!
For one thing it supports backup file sizes larger than 2GB. Thats
something I really needed.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jaeger, Luke wrote:
speaking of which, what the heck does the upgrade do? If I could get
into
the dantz web site, I could probably find out
And in case you're wondering who turned on that 'temp memory' setting when
you didn't even know it existed - Apparently the 'temp memory' setting was
recommended a couple of versions ago; since then it has become preferable to
leave it off. If you upgraded your copy of Retrospect from an earlier
I've been backing up ASIP 6.2/OS 8.6 via remote client 4.2 for over a year
without a problem.
Just to clarify - you are running the retrospect client on your ASIP server,
and the Retrospect app on a dedicated machine, correct? Running the
retrospect app on your ASIP server is a bad idea.
What
yes, buy a tape drive. It will pay for itself very quickly.
Say the following words to your boss:
"Sooner or later there WILL be a catastrophic computer failure resulting in
data loss.
You can either spend a small amount of money on a backup tape drive, or a
large amount of money rebuilding
that's why you have the regular script run first, to clear out the tape.
Otherwise I agree, it just keeps growing.
do the laptops go home every single night, or can the users be persuaded to
leave them overnight occasionally?
you could write different backup server scripts to give the laptops
v5 is the windoze version
top of the world,
Luke Jaeger, Technology Coordinator
Disney Magazine Publishing
Northampton, Massachusetts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any opinions expressed in this message are my own and may not represent the
opinions of Disney Publishing, etc etc etc.
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