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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1364)	6/14/1998 1:44:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

All, some more regarding my backup strategy... I use two primary methods... Disaster Recovery: Powerquests Drive Image 2.0 (been using 1.0). (indespensable, much beter than Ghost). For my workstation which has the jaz locally attached.. I boot off floppy and create a complete image to Jaz Carts manually at least once a month. I rotate 4 sets of carts. I have onsite firesafe + offsite storage. Clients and NT Server: Use network boot floppy to create image on my workstation. Put the Images onto TR-4 Tape. Rotate similar for the server. May not rotate client backups nearly as frequently... Store Image Tapes in Safe on and offsite. Automated Daily Backup I bought a Seagate T8000N SCSI ($205) from www.compuplus.com for my new box recently. Great Deal, you get Seagates very nice backup exec software with builtin scheduling. One CD for 3.1, 95, and NT versions.... weekly full backup files of data files only. Rotate as above. Daily differential backup. daily rotation between two tapes appending backups as I go. Rotate this two tape set as described above... I have backup exec gather data files, investment programs and settings, quicken & data, bookmarks, email, and lots more from all the computers on my network as part of this daily procedure. All Backups run a 4:30 AM after other daily cleaup has occured. I feel this gives well rounded protection of data and software configurant. Its very redundant and robust. Does it take work to impliment??? yep, but my peice of mind is worth it. And yes, I have to buy bunches of jaz carts and tapes. (I have several thousand $$$ worth of Jaz Carts alone). BTW: Syquest Sparq is the best removable going now IMNSHO. Another Note: Every machine on my LAN is plugged into a smart UPS. Sean