Re: tape or hard drive?

2001-02-22 Thread Donovan Brooke
I personally would get a buslink USB hard drive (or two or howevermany you need.) I might get some flack for suggesting this but It works great and its cheaper than tape. You also never have to change a tape. The only thing to be leary about is its extention. being yet another 3rd party

Re: tape or hard drive?

2001-02-22 Thread Donovan Brooke
Hey Erik, your point about the "...6months ago..." is true!. This is why we have elected to get yet another USB drive when it comes to it. The 3rd drive will always be an old back-up. 3 drives will cost us $1200.00. We think this will provide the security we need and still for less cost than

Mac File/HD backup

2001-01-19 Thread Donovan Brooke
Hello, I received some advice a while ago from Irene @ Dantz. This is regarding a scripting scheme I want to set up to alternate weekly or every two weeks between 2 USB HD's. With my knowledge in Retrospect being about as good as my knowledge in how to say something to my girlfriend without

script advice

2001-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
oops, wanted to post this again not under a wrong subheadding Hello retro, I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on a back-up script/system I've put together. I am backing up our ASIP server via mounted volumes on another host G4 computer to a Mac file on a USB 60 gig HD. Things are

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-12 Thread Donovan Brooke
dana, If you are not absolutley sure that the firewire drive is HFS+ I would double check it. (do a get info on the drive) look for Mac OS Extended. - D Shawn Welter wrote: Mac os 9 supported files over 2gb. To use retrospect you need version 4.3. I currently back up 40 mac clients and 10 pc

Re: 2gb limit?

2001-01-11 Thread Donovan Brooke
dana, there are several issues related to the 2 gig limit Mac File issue. first, the HD that has the back up set has to be in HFS+ format. Second, I would ask, how/what is your client doing the back up. is the powerbook a back up host that is backing up a mounted volume? or, is the powerbook

script suggestions?

2001-01-11 Thread Donovan Brooke
Hello retro, I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on a back-up script/system I've put together. I am backing up our ASIP server via mounted volumes on another host G4 computer to a Mac file on a USB 60 gig HD. Things are working great!!! I have two back-up set files that sum up to

suggestions for scripting

2000-12-19 Thread Donovan Brooke
Hello, I am setting up scripts for a daily back-up. I wanted to get suggestions (or reinforcement) on the appropriate procedure for doing a daily back-up that rotates between two removable drives every other week. I am backing up to a macintosh file. I have two 60gig USB drives. I want to

Re: Macintosh File

2000-12-15 Thread Donovan Brooke
size limit. http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n15460 Tom Lawton [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donovan, List, Dantz > > Sorry, no answer, but same problem ... > Donovan Brooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when the Macintosh file reaches it's two gig >> l