I've gotta backup Jason on his observations. Our company
made the Arkeia mistake.
(*) constant Windows --> Linux backup problems (never resolved)
(*) they "lost" our licencing info and demanded more $$$ for
help
(*) we never found the system reliable
(*) lose your backup registry/directory and you are stuffed
-rickw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> They should be pay you to use it.
>
> We ran arkeia for 6 months and found it continually failed backups
> (sometimes for weeks at a time) without notifying the operator of the
> failed status.
>
> The usual cause of this - if a Linux machine was offline for some reason,
> arkeia assumed it was a windows box and refused to run the backups as we
> didn't have any windows licences!
>
> My suggestion - avoid it. While the product has lots of potential the
> reliability has been compromised in order to maintain revenue through
> licencing. (oh - and knox will forget you are licenced if you have
> any problems and expect you to pay again.)
>
> I have a 15 linux system licence sitting here unused if anybody want's to
> buy it (probably not legally transferable though.)
>
> Cheers
> Jason.
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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited
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