Hi Brandon. I second your comments that backups are vital. I also agree
with you on Flexbackup being unfriendly however I have not experienced the
problems you mention with Taper so I remain pro Taper. I would also like
to hear feedback from others on this issue. I would not want to continue
Jeffery wrote:
> From way back in my SCO days... I used to use C-TAR, which is now
> BackupEDGE. Never had a lick of trouble with it, and the ability to boot a
> recovery disk, then restore the last master and incremental tapes was
GREAT.
> I could restore a full system, including device files, s
Brandon wrote:
> Personally we have chosen a product called tapeware
> (www.tapeware.com). The
> only disadvantage of it is that it lacks a bit in
> compatibility for some
> devices (mainly IDE). One plus is that the product is
> supplied with all HP
> DAT drive FREE!
I have also tested TapeWa
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:10:33PM +0200, Brandon Friedman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> These people (me included) like to use GUI's and feel a bit more
> comfortable with them. I don;t want to say there is anything wrong with
> command line but for the 'non-keyboard cowboys' , GUI's wil
Brandon,
For more robust *commercial* products, I'd also suggest you look at
BRU from Enhanced Software Technologies. I've used it before and been
quite happy with it:
http://www.bru.com/products.php
Regards,
Dan
Darrell May wrote:
>
> Hi Brandon. I second your comments that backups are vi
>> Personally I would prefer to have one console (ie e-smith Web-console) to
>> control everything on the server.
Gordon wrote:
>Yes, as long as the effort to implement it in the e-smith web console
>is justified. For example, it makes no sense for us to write our own
>webmail.
I agree - why no
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:13:14PM -0500, Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> Our lack of enthusiasm for taper is not related to any reliabilty problems
> it may have, nor due to a lack of features. From what we have seen, it may
> have too many features - it does not meet the "as s
Dan wrote,
> Brandon,
>
> For more robust *commercial* products, I'd also suggest you look at
> BRU from Enhanced Software Technologies. I've used it before and been
> quite happy with it:
>
> http://www.bru.com/products.php
>
> Regards,
> Dan
I have had a look at it - also liked it. I am cur
ry 10, 2001 8:53 AM
> To: 'Gordon Rowell'
> Cc: E-smith Devinfo
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup Software Choices
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Gordon Rowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:18
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Darrell May wrote:
> Hi Brandon.
[Brandon, if you get this - your mail was bouncing earlier today.]
> I second your comments that backups are vital. I also agree
> with you on Flexbackup being unfriendly
Flexbackup is inadequately friendly and inadequately documented. We
Dan wrote:
> In my experience, most tape backup rotational schemes, fail to provide the
> piece-of-mind that a nightly full backup provides.Consider what would
> happen if your master tape fails for any reason (user error, tape breaks,
> becomes unreadable, damaged, lost, stolen). It happens
> -Original Message-
> From: Gordon Rowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 10:18 AM
> To: Charlie Brady
> Cc: E-smith Devinfo; 'Brandon Friedman'
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Backup Software Choices
> And as Charlie sa
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