BACK-UP DATA EVERY NIGHT!!!

[SPYDERIX]

Hi this is double posted here and in MAC hardware.

I want to know the best way to backup everything on our MAC G4 everynight. What kind of hardware and software do I need? I need a re-writable disk too b/c the same disk will be over-writen every night. Can someone tell me the best hardware to use and what is the most AFFORDABLE, we are only a small business and we need to back up every night (just in case) our computer crashes alot and we need a disk that is 40 gigs big.

Can someone help suggest the best solution.

Thanks!

¡Buena Suerte!

 

[PTmon]

Hi,
I use an external 60gig Firewire hard drive to back up to, and back up everything on my appleshare IP server, G3 Laptop, and G4 workstations using Retrospect. I have the backups run automatically overnight. Retrospect launches automatically and backs everything up. There are two kinds of people in the world..... those that back up... and those that WISH they did!

Best of luck,
PT

http://mahon.homeip.net/remember

 

[carlow]

Hi,

another possibility is buying a tape streamer. With tape streaming as a backup system you can make quicker backups because the strteamer will look for new files and only put them on the tape instead of having to copy the full Harddisk(s)

hope this helps
grillhouse

 

[macgeneral]

Spyderix

We use an external firewire drive to back up our three servers here. Works flawlessly (thus far) and the transfer speeds are actually tollerable. Software ships and in the mac environment you can manually drag and drop each night if you so choose.

MacGeneral

 

[SPYDERIX]

OK, So 2 of you use a firewire HD, What exactly does that mean? How much do they cost? How much is Retrospect?

We would like this to happen automatically, and if possible, run on shutdown command, and then it will do the rest by itself.

Can you boot from a firewire HD, in case the primary one decides to give up. And can you just delete everything on the primary HD, and then copy everything from the firewire HD to get everything working again. Or does the firwire HD just used for files and not OS.

Thanks for your help!

 

[carlow]

Hi

If you wan't the firewire HD to be bootable you must install an os on it and make it bootable by selecting your start-up disk.

grillhouse