Re: Fwd: Superstation/Backup Exec software

[laura young <laura2young@yahoo.com>]

Thanks again!  I was able to successfully retrieve the
lost data (albeit 2 months old - but something is
better than nothing!)  I definetely couldn't have done
it without you...so I owe you much gratitude!  Thanks
for helping out a total stranger cursed with a
SuperStation now headed for the garbage.  Yay!

Laura Young
--- Kyle Amon <x@gnutec.com> wrote:
> > Wow, thanks for replying!  I didn't really think
> you
> > would, but I figured I had nothing to lose :-)
> 
> Never know 'till ya know, eh. :-)
>  
> > In terms of the BackupPC you mentioned - let me
> ask
> > you a question.  How do you incorporate an offsite
> > backup when using it?  I have some ideas, but
> would
> > love your feedback.
> 
> Well, since it is designed to back up network
> connected
> machines to a central server anyway (the one running
> BackupPC), making offsite backups is is really
> nothing
> different, assuming TCP/IP based LANs and
> appropriate
> internet connections.  The most straight forward way
> of doing it is simply to not have the BackupPC
> server
> on the LAN you want to backup with it, but rather at
> the other end of a WAN link to it.  What I've been
> doing is putting a BackupPC server on the LAN to be
> backed up by it and backing up just that BackupPC
> server over the internet with another BackupPC
> server
> at a remote location.  The BackupPC server on the
> LAN
> backs up all the machines on that LAN every night
> and
> the remote BackupPC server backs up the BackupPC
> server
> that backs up the LAN every night as well.  It's all
> automagic. :-)  Every machine on the LAN can be
> restored
> from the local BackupPC server and that entire
> BackupPC
> server (including all it's backed up machines' data)
> can be restored from the remote BackupPC server in
> the
> event of real catastrophe.
> 
> >                       I am toying with the idea of
> > going with some portable USB ION drives rather
> than
> > ever touching a tape backup drive again (I've had
> > enough, thank you).  The obvious issue is that to
> > preserve data in case of fire, etc., the backup
> would
> > need to be taken off site on a routine basis.  I
> can
> > purchase two ION drives and instruct my client to
> swap
> > them out at regular intervals, but I'm wondering
> if
> > there is a better solution than that.
> 
> Well, personally, I think backing systems up to a
> backup server over the network is the best solution
> since it can be made the least administratively
> intensive for both backups and restores.  I hate
> repeating identical tasks on a recurring basis.
> I'm all done with backup methods that require *my*
> manual intervention for either backups or restores.
> 
> -- Kyle
> 
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