RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-04 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
putername, etc. Licensing is enforced at the server now. The client no longer needs personalized with a serial number, license number, computername, or anything else. Thanks for listening to yet another rant, Lee. ;-) Brad. -Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Stevens
on 12/30/2000 3:25 PM, "ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... the question is, since I am planning to look at the market for > backup software for bigger systems, would it be reasonable for me to > include Retrospect in the candidate list? Is anyone on the list backing > up systems on this scal

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Adam Hill
retro-talk > Subject: Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems? > > > - with a lot of computers, the Retrospect catalog files can become > large, > and doing the comparisons between catalog and the current client > filesystem structure prior to

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike L.
]]On Behalf Of Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi) Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:27 AM To: 'retro-talk' Subject: RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems? Suppose the first client of the night meets the threshold value, so Backup Server starts a backup. 30 seconds into the b

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Thone, Bradley A (Sbcsi)
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven Karel Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:52 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems? We back up about 200 clients, half Mac, half Windows, including about a dozen lap

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-03 Thread Mike L.
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven Karel Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:52 PM To: retro-talk Subject: Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems? We back up about 200 clients, half Mac, half Windows, including about a dozen laptops. We have less data turnover than you do, how

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-02 Thread Steven Karel
We back up about 200 clients, half Mac, half Windows, including about a dozen laptops. We have less data turnover than you do, however, and only back up each client about once a week. In no particular order, here are my comments on backing up medium-size networks with Retrospect vis-a-vis other s

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-02 Thread Tim David
___ > From: Chris Freemesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 09:05:13 -0500 > To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Freemesser
>So... the question is, since I am planning to look at the market for >backup software for bigger systems, would it be reasonable for me to >include Retrospect in the candidate list? Is anyone on the list backing >up systems on this scale? > >Any advice welcome. > >Ian. Hi Ian. I run a Retrospe

RE: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2000-12-31 Thread Douglas B. McKay
alf Of ian Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems? I've used Retrospect on my home network (two PCs and a Mac) for nearly a year and it is exactly right for my needs. I am also responsible for my company'

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2000-12-31 Thread Jon Gardner
on 12/30/00 7:45 PM, matt barkdull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dealing with ArcServe, you probably have a good idea of how you want > the backups to go. Retrospect is a lot easier to set up to do what > you want it to do. I'll second that. I used ArcServe at my last job, and while it did the

Re: Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2000-12-30 Thread matt barkdull
We're rather small, about 200 machines total for 3 backup servers. One of the backup servers does only 10 clients and a ASIP server. I use Retrospect and swear by it. We've used ArcServe and it's a piece of junk compared to Retrospect on the same number of clients. Backups are happening relia

Anyone used Retrospect on medium-large systems?

2000-12-30 Thread ian
I've used Retrospect on my home network (two PCs and a Mac) for nearly a year and it is exactly right for my needs. I am also responsible for my company's IT environment. We use ArcServe for the backup software - the server running on a Windows NT server, a Dell PowerVault twin-drive 30-tape li