backup systems

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Keith Antoine wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, but i can't offer any suggestions for windoze.

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