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

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Jan 20 19:00:56 2002

Sadly, I've found a few weaknesses in the VERITAS solution. It's almost to
the point of reaching 10% of success, though no other Windows software, I've
had so far has gotten that far.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: ot... at it again scsi tape drive in windows 95


> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Get a Mac! Had to be said, even if it's more or less irrelevant here.
>
> Actually, the recommendation of smbfs mounting Windows shares from the
> Win98 system over the network is a really good idea. At least if you've
> got a spare PC with a NIC and SCSI for the tape device, and if you're
> looking to do this cheaply. In fact, the idea is so good, there should
> probably be a single disk bootable backup server solution that works
> like this. It'd be trivial to setup automated backup schedules using
> the cron daemon.
>
There's a Netware-based solution that came with my AHA3985 that shows some
promise. I may get around to it some day.
>
> The only backup software I've administered that works well with PCs
> would be Veritas NetBackup and Tivoli's TSM (previously IBM's ADSM).
> Of course that was with backup client software running on the PCs and
> Unix based backup servers that actually performed the tape I/O. Both of
> these solutions are well out of the price and feature range of your
> average home users.
>
> -brian.
>
>
Received on Sun Jan 20 2002 - 19:00:56 GMT