ot... at it again scsi tape drive in windows 95

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Jan 20 14:09:55 2002

IIRC, GHOST has the problem that it won't deal directly with large drives, and
that it expects to deal with media essentially identical to what's being
backed up. I don't have a removable media disk drive with 100 GB capacity
yet, but since there are problems with disks for backup under WIndows anyway,
I'll have to wait for something for TAPE or DVD-R to come out.

What I'm after, of course, is scheduled backup that doesn't require any human
interaction at all, other than daily removal of the backup media from the
previous backup.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: ot... at it again scsi tape drive in windows 95


> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> <Many Relevant & Accurate Observations Trimmed>
>
> > I'd welcome any constructive suggestions, short of wasting another few
bucks
> > on yet another half-assed backup package.
>
> I use a Linux Rescue CD with support for my SCSI adapter (any Adaptec
> & most NCR/Symbios/LSI cards will be built in without modification) and
> do a straight tar or dd-to-diskfile-then-tar backup. I've done a couple
> of bare-metal restores of Windows 95 from dd images and it worked
> beautifully, but you need lots of room on a spare filesystem.
>
> I guess Ghost (which I've seen for as little as $50 lately) is
> probably the best Win/DOS based option. Again, hardware requirements are
> the rub.
>
> Doc
>
>
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