Wednesday, civileme mused:
> The employer was too cheap to give me a separate workstation, so it was my six
> years of work that was lost. For the same reason, it was risky to try
> restoring from tape though I had always done one file a month. Anyway, the
> tapes were stretched and dirty and
Actually they are meant for shipping drums (as in rock band) that we got
from a garage sale. Used some shipping foam from a case of HDD's we
bought (it holds HDD's individually and gives me slots I can label.)
It's a real cludge but it works. We also use One of those fire and
water proof "safes"
I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once
a
week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80).
Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of
it
was co
Brian Schroeder wrote:
From: Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You just scared me to death.
I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to
time
(when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies
here: in case of disaster the tape won't be readable
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 00:48, James Sparenberg wrote:
...
> > I use and recommend to those who ask for an honest opinion the Linus
> > Torvalds backup strategy: "Real men upload their important data to FTP
> > servers and let the world download it." That doesn't mean to upload your
> > corporate dat
On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:50 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 17:28, Robert Barry wrote:
> > I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with
> > removable hard drives for our office network.
> >
> > I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup
> > up the NT fileserve
>>If I might add. If you use cases (and it's a good idea) make sure
>> that they are fire and water proof... I just had some survers go under
>> water and the backups survived because the cases where water tight.
What kind of cases are you using?
Rob
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 17:28, Robert Barry wrote:
> I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with
> removable hard drives for our office network.
>
> I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup
> up the NT fileserver right on to the removable hard
> drive. I have a set of shell s
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 19:08 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Talking of which - do you know any site with information on the different
> > grades of media, with regard to lifespan. I'm careful with storage, but I'm
> > aware that the med
So true. This is coming from when i did Server Support for Dell.
Rob
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>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Schroeder
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>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:16, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > > civileme wrote:
> > > > Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
> > > > eventually powered down and found
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:32, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> >From: Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >You just scared me to death.
> >I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to time
> >(when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies
> >here: in case o
I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with
removable hard drives for our office network.
I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup
up the NT fileserver right on to the removable hard
drive. I have a set of shell scripts that mount the
NT fileserver directories and cron runs
[cnip]
I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a
week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80).
This is how all "tape backup sucks" stories start.
Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
eventually powered dow
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:39 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Yet in spite of all that, I still could not bring myself to trust a system
> that rejected its own tapes with such regularity.
>
I would just add that no-one laughed or complained again at my paranoid backup
strategy.
Anne
--
Registered Lin
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> After using and selling "Enterprise" IT products and services for nearly
> ten years, I do not trust any backup solution as far as I can throw the
> media. They all more or less suck, and exist purely to give a false
> sense of security and "
From: Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You just scared me to death.
I had no problem reding the tapes to restore some files from time to time
(when a user deleted them by mistake), but I guess murphy's law applies
here: in case of disaster the tape won't be readable :-(
Absolutely! That's the
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > civileme wrote:
> > > Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
> > > eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of
> > > it was corrup
Anne Wilson wrote:
That's what the verify feature of your backup program is there for.
It take twice the time and it'll probably cause more wear and tear on
the tape but at least you'll know the tape is readable.
'Fraid not. I was running backup with full verify, but it still didn't stop
the
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> civileme wrote:
> > Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
> > eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of
> > it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is
civileme wrote:
Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of it
was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible. OK no problem, data is on
tapes, let's reload OS--- done reach for tape
Oops--tape
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 19:08 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> Talking of which - do you know any site with information on the different
> grades of media, with regard to lifespan. I'm careful with storage, but I'm
> aware that the media I'm using are not really suitable for longer storage. I
>
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 5:17 pm, civileme wrote:
> I will beat on tape for backup. MY tape drive faithfully backed up once a
> week and I rotated 6 tapes to stay current. (MAC fileserver 80).
>
> Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive. I
> eventually powered down and
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:11 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
> civileme wrote:
> > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward
> > 650Mb
> > disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled,
> > and a
> > $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Ev
gt;> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tibbetts, Ric
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:11 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [expert] drakbackup
>>
>>
>> civileme wrote:
>> > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented
civileme wrote:
Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward
650Mb
disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled,
and a
$25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive
barfs
on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0
DO NO
9:07pm, civileme mused:
> Umm, I just moved the Acer Drive to my son's computer (he uses the
> unmentionable system in its latest incarnation) and it behaves the
> same--choking on CDRW disks, so I imagine it is unresolved hardware issues
> with the druive hardware and the brand of media (one s
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:07, civileme wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Holt wrote:
> > 5:42pm, civileme mused:
> > > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward
> > > 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount
> > > disabled, an
On Monday 03 February 2003 07:28 pm, Michael Holt wrote:
> 5:42pm, civileme mused:
> > Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward
> > 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount
> > disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even w
5:42pm, civileme mused:
> Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb
> disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a
> $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs
> on CDRW media, even for blanking,
Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb
disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a
$25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs
on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0
DO NOT USE CDRW media
Hey all,
I've been trying to use drakbackup with both cdr's and rw's but I
get "FATAL: Does not appear to be recordable media!" with both. I'm able
to burn a disk with cdrecord - just drakbackup fails. Any suggestions?
Thanks! Mike
--
Michael Holt
Banning, CA
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