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How do you backup a small network of computers?
If your M/Board supports it, setup a hardware raid. Software Raids are no
good if the OS ****s itself. I don't think Dynamic Disk is worse then the so-called "hardware" RAIDs, who are usually implemented in driver software anyway Microsoft and Veritas are more trustworthy companies for me then the Chinese RAID chip vendor. At least for El Cheapo hardware Dynamic Disk is probably better. Another advantage of Dynamic Disk is easier recovery - the array will assemble itself on any other controller flavor, the disks can be plugged in to the controllers in any order. And yes - RAID is not for backup, it is for redundancy. For instance, RAID will not allow you to recover the accidentally deleted file. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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How do you backup a small network of computers?
"Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote in message ... If your M/Board supports it, setup a hardware raid. Software Raids are no good if the OS ****s itself. I don't think Dynamic Disk is worse then the so-called "hardware" RAIDs, who are usually implemented in driver software anyway Microsoft and Veritas are more trustworthy companies for me then the Chinese RAID chip vendor. At least for El Cheapo hardware Dynamic Disk is probably better. You make a valid point, but what about hardware vendors like Intel and Asus. Yes they both make their good and their bad Mobo's, but when it comes down to it "You get what you pay for" We don't want to be sitting around waiting for Windoze to reinstall before re-creating our Raid. Also Windows XP does not support any sort of fault tollerance. So we would still be relying on 3rd party Asian import software. Another advantage of Dynamic Disk is easier recovery - the array will assemble itself on any other controller flavor, the disks can be plugged in to the controllers in any order. I agree. And yes - RAID is not for backup, it is for redundancy. For instance, RAID will not allow you to recover the accidentally deleted file. Absolutely! -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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How do you backup a small network of computers?
for Windoze to reinstall before re-creating our Raid. Also Windows XP does
not support any sort of fault tollerance. So we would still be relying on Yes. Windows XP Home does not support Dynamic Disk at all. XP Pro supports them, but not on a laptop and IIRC not RAID5 (software RAID5 is a bad idea anyway due to CPU load. With RAID5, the El Cheapo SATA controller is probably more recommendable then the Dynamic Disk). -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft Corporation http://www.storagecraft.com |
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