A personal story

2000-09-07 Thread Daniel Knight
I posted this on Low End Mac last night. If anyone ever questions the wisdom of daily backup, have them read this article. We lost a half-day of productivity during trouble-shooting, but once we restored from backup, everything worked perfectly. http://lowendmac.com/musings/tips.html It was

Re: VXA

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Witrylak
Does anyone have experience with the VXA autoPAK system? If so, how has it performed for you? Thank you for any feedback. :-) Sincerely, Robert Cooper MIS Director Renaissance TTP, Inc. Not exactly your answer, but Yes, I DO have an autopak. I'm TRYING to run it off an Apple Mac G4 (OS

Re: 4.3 and System 9.04 - Crashing all the time

2000-09-07 Thread Mark Witrylak
Can you tell me if this is the Ultra SCSI2 (50 pin) card on you G4, and IF you remember, what the firmware revision was? And how you found out that it was the SCSI card? Please Mark It took me a couple tries, but my problem turned out to be an old version of the firmware for the SCSI card

RE: A personal story

2000-09-07 Thread Hyde, Glenna M.
Been there – done that and Thank God for the full back up. I have restored our server a couple of times in the past 6 years and I swear by the back ups that nobody else here will take seriously, until that fatal moment when everything they worked on is not available. Thanks Glenna Hyde

Backup option recommendation..please.

2000-09-07 Thread Cesar Morales
Dear all, ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? but read on for more details.. I have been using Retrospect for backing up our Mac workstations and NT file volumes (accessed from mac client), our old

Re: VXA

2000-09-07 Thread Robert Cooper
Well i was hoping to run it from a Beige G3! Sounds like their may be some problems though. Thank you for your input! Does anyone have experience with the VXA autoPAK system? If so, how has it performed for you? Thank you for any feedback. :-) Sincerely, Robert Cooper MIS

Re: Backup option recommendation..please.

2000-09-07 Thread Eric Ullman
Cesar Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? Of course! =) But don't take my word for it: http://www.betterbackup.com/reviews.html Eric Ullman Dantz Development --

RE: VXA

2000-09-07 Thread Shawn Stuckey
Let me jump in gentleman and give a bit of feedback. Dantz has seen no complaints or incompatibilities thus far where the AutoPak is concerned. As of today we fully support the AutoPak on both platforms provided you are using 4.2 Mac/5.1 Windows or later. For the mac product I would strongly

Re: Backup option recommendation..please.

2000-09-07 Thread Matt Barkdull
Cesar Morales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..do you think replacing the monumental BackupExec with Retrospect on our servers will make life easier here at sysadminville? We recently switched from that beomoth ArcServe program to Retrospect. For starters, we didn't have to buy the $400 add