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There is another storage abckup that seems pretty good. On the Internet,
there are a number of services where you can store data free. This would
be even greater since you could store data from home and retrieve it from
work or visa versa exceot Bess won't let us go there.
-Wes
wfelty@gte.net
At 02:34 PM 01/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
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>The district uses a number of backup systems in the data center. Most are
>enterprise-level systems that are priced too high to be considered for home
>use. Over the years, we've used some small-system tape backups for
>individual systems, and I've used a couple for my home PCs. Our experience
>generally is that the tape systems intended for home or small-system use
>aren't terribly reliable. If nothing else, the small tapes don't stand up to
>repeated use.
>
>For anyone with multiple machines and a lot of data, what seems to make most
>sense right now is networking the computers and installing a CD-RW drive in
>one of them. Then you can back up all the machines to CD, which is just
>about the only thing with sufficient capacity to handle today's machines in
>reasonable fashion.
>
>With multiple machines networked, another possibility is backing each of
>them up to one of your other machines. The only problem with that is disk
>capacity, plus the possibility both the original machine and the one with
>the backup might be taken out by an electrical event like a lightning
>strike.
>
>If you have only a small amount of data, you can look at an Iomega Zip
>drive. There are versions that hold 100MB per disk and others that hold
>250MB. The cost of the drive isn't extremely high. I've run a 100MB drive
>for years now, and have only had one disk go bad.
>
>No matter what you use for backup, make sure you test a restore before you
>believe that your backup is successful! And make two backups and keep one
>off site.
>
>Thanks,
>Judy
>JMCNAMEE@seattleschools.org
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Harvey [mailto:sharvey@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us]
>Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:41 AM
>To: TIC-TECH@tic.ssd.k12.wa.us
>Subject: Tic-Tech: backup systems
>
>--- TIC-TECH message:
>Colleagues,
>
>I am wondering if anyone out there has any info/advice on automatic backup
>systems?
>
>I have done a little investigation at a site called cmsproducts.com.
>
>My particular situation is I have a Dell laptop (Latitude) running Win 98,
>but also a home desktop PC running Win 95. If I bought an ABS, I would
>like to use it to backup both systems.
>
>Does the district own any of these, or do they plan to purchase?
>
>It already takes me 4 diskettes to backup the stuff in 'My Documents' on
>my laptop.
>
>-Sean
>
>Sean Harvey
>Teacher-Librarian
>Viewlands Elementary
>Seattle, WA
>
>(206) 706-4370
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