There seems to be a broad consensus that magneto-optical disks offer the most reliable long term storage for data. Here is something that appears to be similar, and holds 30GB in a 5 inch package! What do you think about this medium? http://www.akibalive.com/archives/000487.html Reproduced...

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Dear All, Does anyone have any advice regarding running a5200 with a w2k host? Specifically I have a 5200 that the w2k host sees, and then asks for a driver for a "sun sena scsi enclosure". I can't find such a driver on the web. Within disk manager I can see the luns, so I could allways ignore...

Dear All, I have recently started using an A5200 array with one of our windows servers. The wintel box is W2k SP4. It uses the Dell version of Array Manager v3.5 for disk management. Following a power cut, one of the disks failed. The software reported that a disk was missing and trying to...

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does anyone know of one? I cannot find one on their website, and I'm not really interested in getting hounded by salespeople before seeing one. thanks

Say I do a complete backup in Acronis (Acronis 9 on XP), and call it Back.tib. Then, I do an incremental backup, pointing Acronis to Back.tib as the archive to increment from (I give this in the "Backup Archive Location" question), and Acronis creates a file called Back2.tib. If I do another...

I got Acronis TI last month and installed it on my laptop (I downloaded the latest upgrade patch as well, so I'm running the latest build - I think its 613). I ran a full backup of my C: drive (Windows XP Home Edition) at that moment, and restricting the TIB file size to 700MB to fit on a CDR. The...

I am trying to backup my entire computer before I take a long trip, and I get the following message from Acronis TrueImage: "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" I am using TrueIMage Home, 9.0. Thanks! maria

Hello, I am evaluating Acronis True Image 7.0, have previously only used DriveImage and Ghost (2003). True Image so far looks truly impressive. However, I have 2 key questions/concerns: 1) Image verify

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I'm getting a strange result with an Acronis V10 boot disk that I would like help understanding. I have a 68 GB NTFS primary partition that I am copying to an identical drive. The result after copying shows two differences: 1) The space free on the destination drive shows 10GB free, whereas...

Has anyone encountered a 'missing' volume in their library? I have an L5500 and ACSLS 7.1. Somehow a tape ended up outside the library and is now listed as 'missing' when I query the volume in cmd_proc. When I try to inject the tape, it gets scanned (cap set to automatic), and then the cap gets...

Want to get a clarification if the following is possible. First, understand that it is not possible to have more than one initiators to the robotic control of a tape library. What we want to achieve here is a HA of a backup media server. Can we have 2 hosts, one active and one standby, both...

It may /sound/ crazy, but is it possible to recycle old floppy diskettes by carefully cutting them up into little pieces and grinding it all up in an ordinary kitchen "coffee mill?" Then, after it reaches a reasonably fine consistency, pouring the stuff into a mold and heating it up in an oven? ...

Hi, Since my last posting has evolved to a SCSI vs SATA thread, which does not solve my problem, I've posted this new news as a follow up. Unfortunaly our supplier will not take the card back, we made a specific order for it, and it's a "low flow" card, that would end up on their stock for a long...

I intend to build a small server for my (6 Win XP computers) home LAN, to backup my Data (and store some original documents). Adaptec 2410SA Serial ATA Raid card seems to be a nice choice in terms of price : you can use 4 cheap disks in Raid 5 mode to "secure" a capacity of 3. If I understood...

I just tried some SEagate barracuda 2TB LP drives on some Adaptec 2420SA sata II raid cards. No dice. the adaptecs are running the latest 5.2.whatever firmware. they see the seagate drives, the firmware rev, the capacity (1800GB) but say the drive is not responding.

I just added a new 250G drive to a 3-drive raid 5 system (making 4 drives now) and although the Adaptec Storage Manager shows all 4 drives as being part of my raid 5 (TomRaid), the extra space does not show up in My Computer and it shows as an unused volume in Disk Manager. What do I have to do in...