backup systems

[Keith Antoine]

On Friday 24 May 2002 17:38, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?

Sorry yes it was unclear. The software used runs on win95 at the moment and 
will be running on win98, after rebuilds. Some will hopefully run on 2000 
after the programmers finalise it.

> 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.

The amount is unclear but it is very vulnerable, also it needs to be kept and 
transmitted to govt. I am looking at a failsafe system and he is not too 
worried about the H/w so long as the data is safe. It will have 5 POS hanging 
off it in a fairly busy pharmacy.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage