[dba-Tech] backup

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 23 16:28:38 CST 2010


Gary, thanks, PB.

Gary Kjos wrote:
> I use A Windows Home Server system for backup.  It doesn't store drive
> images but file by file backups which are then reassembled into a
> usable drive with a client recovery disk should a restore be needed.
> So identical files on multiple systems are not copied multiple times.
> I use an HP brand server they call a Mediasmart. It does provide other
> functionality but I have mostly used mine just for the nightly
> backups.
>
> http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/
>
> GK
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> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Peter Brawley
> <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> To keep reasonably recent backup images of 5 PCs, is there a more
>> efficient method than to buy a caddy and a hard drive for it with enough
>> capacity to hold comfortably more than total used space on the five PCs,
>> partition the hard drive so it has a partition for each drive we're
>> going to back up, then run cloneZilla from each PC as often as we need?
>>
>> PB
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