Do you do backups?

[NullSmurf]

I took an old box (PIII for godsakes!) and loaded Fedora on it, a cheap PCI SATA card, and a couple 200GB SATA drives in there. On my wife's Windoze box, my Win2k gaming/media workstation, and my son's WinXP box, I loaded rsync client software and pull files to the linux system at night with a cron script. Pretty flawless, and even my college-age son is asleep by 4am. There's lots of web-info on doing backups using the rsync command. (What xcopy WISHES it was.)

A Linux man! I would have guess you're a Apple.

 

[geldor1]

I have several sealed copies of 'Dantz Retrospect Express - Backup 6.5 for optical drive storage' if anyone is interested or just wants to try it out.

From what I can find, this will back up to internal drives. external drives and/or CD/DVDs.

These Cds come packaged with the systemswe get in and we just toss them out.

Doesn't say anywhere on the CD that it is 'not for resale' or only as a bundle. So no need to send a piece of hardware along. :laugh:

Let me know and I'll get it in the mail to you.

 

[Gunpowder]

Having experienced a HD crash this summer I caution the use of Retrospect by Dantz. I had a one touch external HD which came with the software. It worked well but I had problems moving data to my new HD.

Long story short,-8 weeks of digging in the forums, Microsoft, Dantz, etc. I figure out that Dell has a small hidden partition which copied to the external. This partition hids the back door for Dell to enter for repairs, etc.

The new HD obviously didn't have this partition. So it wouldn't mirror stuff back over and reboot correctly.

If you use Retrospect by Dantz make sure to reformat the HD on the desktop "before" setting up the software.

I ended up doing it the old fashion way by picking my files to transfer. I never got 100% back to original.

We now are planning to network two desktops in two separate buildings (My residence and the office) 300' apart. This will protect us from fires. I just need to figure out how to program them to mirror each other at night. This will enable me to be up and running instantly if something happens to one of the systems.

Down time sucks... especially 8 weeks of downtime.