From: Adam 

Richard B. wrote:

> I'm looking for new backup software as my vendor was bought out by
> another company and I'm uncertain of their future.
>
> Anyhow I need to backup my main file server and my Domino server, with
> bare-metal restore capability.  With something like Veritas I would
> have to get an agent (I know Geo!), but I was wondering if something
> like:
>
> http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISWin/
>
> would be worth considering?  Looks like they offer tape support now.
>
> We are actually going to imagining software for our workstation
> backups now and I thought I should rethink what I'm doing on the
> servers.
>
> IOW, what would be the advantages/disadvantages of using imaging vs.
> traditional tape backup software?
>
> FYI the new tape driver is LTO2.
>
> TIA,
>
> - Richard
>
>
What I find usefull is wrt usb2 disks is the ability to "boot from
USB" as then you can image to a USB drive (fairly frequently if you
set up s/w raid to include the usb disk in a mirror) & then if stuff
goes horribly wrong & you need instant relief you can reboot, select
the boot from USB et voila you're back in the game. You can then......(if
you wish) attach a 2'nd usb2 hdd & start the whle process over till
you've scheduled downtime to delve nto the innards & do the ide thang.

I have used machines which for security are purely USB2 & they work
just as well as IDE based ones.

Adam

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