From: "Robert Comer" 

> I think that's exactly what I did, and the new client comes up pretty
> clean w/o the old databases included.

They must've changed something. :(

> I'm already thinking about LTO2 and maybe some kind of automation, but
> that will have to wait until next year at best.  Cheap, massive hd
> capacity is making backups, especially tape, expensive.

Very true, but I'm not real comfortable with how rugged hard drives are
when used as removable storage...

- Bob Comer 


"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:i5j2209tra42qft5h7ebc51pu1ktia24gv{at}4ax.com...
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:54:41 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >You remember that fairly stable OS that could run on much more resource
> >constrained hardware than NT can.  My OS/2 Notes server was a 486/100
with
> >32M of RAM and 10G of IDE disk! 
>
> My fax server is a Compaq Presario 850 486 PC that MarkH gave me years
> ago, 2GB drive and 40 something megs of RAM.  Still running in a
> production environment without a peep.
>
> >I haven't tried the 6.5 client, but with the 5.x client, you install from
> >that one installer file, then you overwrite the desktop files from the
older
> >client, then you start the new client and configure.  I have no clue if
6.5
> >would work the same though...
>
> I think that's exactly what I did, and the new client comes up pretty
> clean w/o the old databases included.
>
> >I've actually already started mentioning this kind of stuff, but it was
more
> >targeted at a bigger tape drive, maybe I can modify my target a bit...
>
> I'm already thinking about LTO2 and maybe some kind of automation, but
> that will have to wait until next year at best.  Cheap, massive hd
> capacity is making backups, especially tape, expensive.
>
> - Richard

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