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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1368)	6/14/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

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. Smart Sector, restore to different size partitions, spanning media, compression, & cost are all factors the differentiate from ghost. *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 backup the server straight to jaz cart. The rest to HD and then to tape. Just cost to much for all the carts it would require.... 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? No idea *I assume that the SCSI version is pretty unobtrusive during bootup and not to greedy with the CPU cycles?* very unobtrusive, Doubt it sucks much CPU as a SCSI device. 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. you just mentioned them all. the parallel port version is amazingly fast it puts zip drives to shame. BTW: Only the manufacturers know the true reliability info and you will NEVER see it. NEVER. we would never share ours with anybody... *Now I gather all the systems you mention in the post are on the same LAN at work?* VBG :) Nope, These are all at my house and what I described is what I do for MY data.... At work we use a Storage Tek/Comvault backup solution to optical disks and 40G DLTS with many many terabytes of capacity. big $$$. Very nice though.... Sean