backup systems

[Net Llama!]

Keith Antoine wrote:
> I have the local Chemist who is asking me to build 2 fileservers, not a big 
> deal but!
> 
> They have a tape backup system that has never been used (8gig) so its a biton 
> the old side. In fact I do not think they would know how if the server went 
> down or even if it is backing up. Or even if the data is usable.
> 
> Due to the sort of proprietorty software the OS is win95, sheesh, and its 
> being upgraded to win98. Now I am sure that we could use a raid motherboard 
> and employ a backup system similar to raid mirror, as used on most email 
> spoolers with hd mirroring. Anyone got experience here ??

Keith, you weren't really clear.  Is the chemist looking to switch over 
to Linux, or stay with windoze98?

If its Linux, i don't know that you'd even need to go with a fancy mobo. 
  Then again,
it all depends on how much data they need/want to backup, and how often.

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