RE: [cobalt-users] backup methods

["Gregory Cawood" <cawood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Back-up Questions:

Is there any better technique for doing backup?  We are currently using FTP
to back everything up nightly, but it is a big pain in the butt to restore
from this (I've done it once).

I have played around with Arkeia and tape backup which seems to be quite
nice, but I would prefer a drive image.

Bill B's solution seems great, but I have about 1/2 dozen raq's so an
automated drive image process would be nice.  Does anyone know of something
that makes images offsite?

Thanks.
Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William J.A.
Brillinger
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 11:23 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] backup methods


Today I visited my co-lo office for 45 minutes. During which time I
answered a number of question regarding the raq4's handling of new hard
drives and creating a complete backup.

First step was to setup my desktop pc which I had brought with me. It has 2
IDE Mobile Rack Pullout bays in it - both on the Master IDE Channels

Second, I powered down my Raq4, disconnected it, opened the cover and
removed the 10gb Seagate IDE drive.

I placed the Seagate into my desktop and used Powerquest Drivecopy to
duplicate the Seagate to a new Maxtor 10gb drive. (17 minutes sector by
sector) I ignored all of the warnings given by the software as it copied -
something about 0 byte not set? and no active partition.

Finally I placed the Maxtor Drive into my Raq closed it up and powered up.

The machine rebooted and appears to be running perfectly.

I have also noticed it is running about 3 degrees cooler, 28 instead of 31
degrees.

The Maxtor and Seagate drives are both 5400 rpm drives although the Maxtor
has a slightly faster seek time.

20 minutes of downtime and I now have a verified offsite backup of my Raq
which can be booted immediately at a later date without having to restore
the system. (Yay!)

If my mainboard supported ATA-100 in dos mode, the backup would have taken
less than 6 minutes.

Cheers!
- Bill B.

At 02:24 PM 10/09/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Definitely I have posted this ? a couple times, would love to know how
>people are backing up the whole drive,.
>plus
>is it possible to do it remotely or do I have to plug a machine in the back
>of it or something.
>
>Thanks!


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William J.A. Brillinger
Precision Design Co./Promotex Online

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