RE: Backup Software Question


Subject: RE: Backup Software Question
From: Chris Herrmann (chris@faredge.com.au)
Date: Sun Jul 29 2001 - 19:06:59 EDT


Retrospect was one of the reasons why our mac users abandoned the macintosh
server and went linux - too much trouble with it, although I'm not convinced
that at least part of that wasn't a user problem...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mac Conin [mailto:mconin@euc.de]
Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 02:34
To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
Subject: Re: Backup Software Question

Hmm,

running netatalk assumes that there is a Macintosh in the network.
What about retrospect from dantz? I've tried it here and it looks
good to me. I'm storing to a DAT-Drive at ~150MB/min.

I can use my mac - and in any circumstance Im not in the office,
someone else can handle a backup or restore, 'cause everybody can handle
the program.

Christoph Sold wrote:
>
> Ryan McBeth wrote:
> >
> > You know, another thing you can consider is something else we
> > have running. I call it a "poor man's RAID". Just purchase 2 hard
> > drives of the same size. Use one hard drive as your working file
> > server. Back up the entire drive to the second hard drive every
> > night. That way, you have a complete backup of the system every day.
> >
> > It's simple, and it works for those "oh shoot, I just erased
> > file X", and it's faster than searching for the correct tape.
>
> Until the person asking for the backupo mentions "I had deleted this
> file the day before..."
>
> Backups to hard disks are no backups. If you want to have speedy acces
> to document history, install your own CVS server. This one is much
> better at getting at old version really fast. If you need security, do a
> backup to removable media, and store it offsite.
>
> >Just my EUR.02
> -Christoph Sold

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