Lloyd Jones wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2005 at 21:31, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is anyone using BackAgain 2000/Workstation to do disk to disk backups?
>>
>>Regards,  Jim
>>
> 
> I use it.
>  - I have two hard drives "A" & "B"
>  - I backup "A" partitions on "B" and
"B" on "A"
>  - Every so often I do a full backup of each partition
>  - Regularly I do differentials for each partition
>  - After each backup, I rename the output file by adding a date 
> (something I asked the BA II guys to provide for several years ago 
> but no luck there).
>  - I haven't done this but you can also copy the backup files to CD or 
> DVD for offsite backup or longer retention.
> 
> This allows you to restore as little as a single file all the way to a 
> complete partition right from the hard drive.
> 
> This works for me.
> I hope this is what you were looking for.
> 
> Lloyd
> 

Lloyd,

Yes it is, thank you.  Alan raised a point about the container file 
becoming bigger than 2GB.  Has this ever been a problem for you?

I have an external 160GB USB drive as a target for backups that is 
formatted jfs. I was thinking of backing up similar to what I do on my 
main machine.  There I backup every Monday to tape and I have 5 tapes 
named WEEK1  to WEEK5.  This gives me a 3 or 4 generations of backups if 
needed.  I was thinking of creating directories WEEK1 to WEEK5 like my 
tape setup but just realized how big 160GB is.  Now I am thinking I 
should adopt your method and rename the files and beable to keep many 
more for a longer period of time.

Regards,  Jim


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