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[Brett I. Holcomb]

Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:

> Sorry to belabor a non-linux point--and weigh in late in the discussion at
> that, but I have been thinking about what you are trying to do.  Three
> points...
> 
> 1       Veritas Backup Exec is certainly the Windows backup software least
> likely to orphan you.  It was originally Arcada backup, then Seagate
> Backup Exec, and has changed a lot but it has limited inter-operability
> between
> versions that makes it a safer choice than most other options.  Plus it
> may
> come free:  Seagate tape drives--and possibly some others--usually come
> with it bundled, plus the backup application included with Windows 98 is a
> thinly-disguised version.  By the way, most versions offer a disaster
> recovery backup and restore, but it takes a long time to run the
> restore.  You can leverage the fact there are (apparently) two servers to
> make restoring one very quick if one were to die.  Once they are up, use
> Ghost to put an image of each on the other.  You can restore from that in
> a matter of minutes, then just restore your data from tape.

Yes, but once you use it you'll wish they had <G>.  For Linux/unix check 
out www.unitrends.com.  Excellent bare metal, regular backup.  The only 
ones who can actually do an openfile backup (I still haven't got BE's to 
work yet) and you can restore individual registry items.
 
> 2       Somewhere, I saw the comment that IDE RAID, while claiming to be
> hardware RAID, is actually software-based.  Point of fact, both IDE and
> SCSI RAID are software-based, but the software lives in BIOS instead of
> the operating system--that is, unless you are using an "advanced" OS like
> UNIX,

But don't many of the cards such as the 3210S have their own processor so 
you aren't sharing your CPU's cyles.

> Now for the reason it may actually pay to try to talk them into
> linux:  Microsoft is rapidly withdrawing support for any desktop other
> than XP (ick!), so it may not be the best time to put a customer on
> Windows 98 or Windows 2000.

Agreed.  I'm hanging on to Win2k as long as I can.  MS may find it hard to 
kill Win2K since much of industry has just finished upgraded from NT to 
Win2K so they aren't about to go through this time and expense again to get 
to XP just in time for XP+1!

> 
> 
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