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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (7000)4/11/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith  Read Replies (3) of 14778
 
Why are you running so many configs???

I chose to have separate isolated drives for (1)TA & broker (2)everything else, except (3)KOT

I think you unnecessarilly over complicated your life.

You have several issues to tackle if you wish to deal with.

Both Diskeeper and Backup Exec use schedulers, NT services and install components into \winnt hierarchy.

Therefore they must be INSTALLED on ALL THREE SETUPS to guarantee they will run every night despite which configuration your booted into at that point in time.

Now you have a decision and some expirementing to do.

There are two choices here.

1. Install each of the three copies in three diferent directories. once from each config. set all three up the same way and your done or are you???

Diskeeper will work fine this way. Backup exec will have a problem. Backup creates a catalog that tracks which files are on which tapes so you don't have to index the tapes at restore time. If you take this approach your catalog would be fragmented across three directories and would not appear as a whole contigous catalog.

I personally would never consider this alternative for my automated backup.

2. Install the program three times in the same directory and drive overwriting the existing files each time. This works well with lots of software and then you can share configuration information across the installs. Only have 1 program dir and still get all the common components and registry entries in the correct place.

you would have to expirement and see if its feasible with these two apps. Worth the effort, it often works.

The easiest solution is run one config and do it all from there. I have BackupExec and Diskeeper on my KOT but only run them manually. I never use it for extended periods. only to fix my other configs. I have half a dozen KOT computers at home so at least 1 should be working at any given point :)

EDIT: Also if all the drives are not visisble from all configurations then you have additional problems there. I would not recommend storing any data on any drives that may be hidden. In reference to the drive letter shifting problem that can occur across mutiple configurations. This really isn't a big problem since if you setup network shares for all of them you can use UNC's to reference the data from the backup.

Sean

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