Sean's backup strategy
Thanks for a very informative and interesting post, Sean. Food for thought that I'll be chewing over before my next upgrades.
"Powerquests Drive Image 2.0 (been using 1.0). (indespensable, much beter than Ghost)."
Been wondering about exactly this comparison. Been recommending friends and clients use DI 2. Ghost seemed the only viable alternative, but hadn't had the chance/desire to try it. Glad to hear you think it's a no brainer.
Let's see: So multiple Jazz carts in rotation for your main WS, with TR4 tape in rotation for the server and clients: do I have this right? No Jaz backups off the WS or tape on it?
I bet having good automation software is very nice, especially since tapes shouldn't need to be changed. A bit of work to set up the routine, but not too laborious to follow for the protection.
Does seem like the T8000N SCSI is a very nice deal.
Do you know offhand what the diff is between it (which is apparantly being discontinued) and the newer Segate replacement, I believe it's the hornet?
Does the Exec Backup software it ships with backup to Sparq? I see mention of Jaz and LS-120, but not it. Wait--ok--here's a deja news post that confirms this.
I assume that the SCSI version is pretty unobtrusive during bootup and not to greedy with the CPU cycles?
"BTW: Syquest Sparq is the best removable going now IMNSHO."
I agree, but would welcome your reasons. Main one, I think, is best price/capacity/speed balance of the removables. A con is that there's no SCSI version, but a plus is there's a surprisingly fast parallel version (nice for notebooks and jumping on other's systems when needed.) Seems like reliability has improved, tho I've seen no good data comparing this with alternatives.
Now I gather all the systems you mention in the post are on the same LAN at work?
Thanks Sean,
Dave |
