Mark,
I am not familiar with the iomega tools, I just use the zip drive for the medium.
Restoring is the most important and least used feature, so I suggest practice, you sure don't want to figure out how to do what you want in an emergency.
If you have a partition of your drive without much on it, you could copy it's image somewhere safe, then make some save sets and practice various restores. For example you can edit a file several times, with a save set between each. See if you can restore to any version, that can be really handy at times.
Erase the drive and make sure you can retrieve the catalogue from the backup medium, and get all the restore options accomplished that you wish. You could even create data on a floppy for practice exercise of your backup software, if you don't feel safe fooling with your hard drive.
Check the compression options, they can keep your medium usage down.
In an emergency (if your boot drive crashes), where is your backup software (boot and restore) going to come from? Make sure you have some sort of utility disk you can boot from, that also contains your restore software. It's a bummer to use you zip drive to boot from, if that's the drive you'll get restore data from, so I have a utility floppy I can boot from, with restore software on it.
Check that it works, in practice not just in theory.
Ricardo |
