Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread thm
I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my budget. Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes killed it for me. What do you mean by append? As I said on a post recently, I've Can tonights nightly incremental backup be appended to the end of the

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread thm
Bru / bru 2000 is a fine product that I may eventually buy. But it is not the same catagory as arkeia/amanda. Bru,afio,cpio,dump,tar are the "get data off filesystem into a stream" catagory. arkeia/amanda are at the "manage a bunch of streams from different systems onto a tape server, catalog

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-21 Thread thm
Now that someone has started this thread :) Are there any other "industrial strength" backup solutions like arkeia out there? I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my budget. Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes killed it for me. Anything else in

Re: Is Raid Stable?

1999-10-07 Thread thm
Well, its crowded at least :) Seriously, I know and respect the redhat people (ought to, used to work there). They would not have gone anywhere near the raid code if it was gonna kill reliability in 6.1. For more direct results, I've got a raid 1 on my web server, a raid 0 in test (stupid jedi

Re: redhat 6.1 RAID: what's different - installs

1999-10-06 Thread thm
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alvin Oga wrote: I'd be interested in writing an installer/duplicator... - I like to do something like: a. give um a bootable cdrom... ( self detect the hardwara ) ( aka rescue cdrom ) Try the PXE stuff in redhat 6.1. (For some reason, I'm just