[dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...

Hey Steve, you are of course correct, a backup is a different beast, however 
as long as you have NAS or another PC with with room to store the backup on 
it's the same amount of work. And the added bonus of having a backup should 
the "New" drive fail in a couple of days.

Oh and by the way, you can use Acronis to clone directly from one drive to 
another (But this wouldn't allow you to use the Universal Restore feature). 
Since server backup software is very expensive I have 2 250G SATA Drives and 
clone my server once a month, then run the server on the new clone to make 
sure that it is good copy and set the other aside for backup.

Obviously my server isn't mission critical. <Grin>


Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:58 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...


Lembit,

Now, now...the reason I started this thread was to ask how to take a
GOOD drive from one system and get it working in another.  Backup is a
different beast.

Steve Erbach

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Lembit Soobik
<lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote:
> "He said that he's familiar with
> Acronis but he just carries around a spare IDE card and cable for that
> kind of work.  No image drive necessary."
>
> so, once a drive fails, he picks his IDE card and magically has all his 
> data
> back.
> so simple.
> ehmmm - does he use his 60-foot flat panel for that magic?
>
> Lembit
>
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