backup to Disk

Howard R. Levy

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Jan 27, 2004, 10:56:14 AM1/27/04

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Does any know of any Backup software that will use a disk drive for the
backup media.
I want to backup each day of the week to unique file. ( just as though
I had 7 daily tapes).
I am using NW5.1.

Thank you
Howard R. Levy

Dave Lunn

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Jan 27, 2004, 11:14:14 AM1/27/04

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Backup Exec 9.1 does backup to disk.
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Massimo Rosen

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Jan 27, 2004, 11:34:33 AM1/27/04

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Hi,

"Howard R. Levy" wrote:
>
> Does any know of any Backup software that will use a disk drive for the
> backup media.
> I want to backup each day of the week to unique file. ( just as though
> I had 7 daily tapes).
> I am using NW5.1.

Arcserve 9.01 can do this too.

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Barry Schnur

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Jan 27, 2004, 11:41:00 AM1/27/04

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I believe ArcServe does this as well and BE 9.1. Note with ArcServe this
functionality has been around for a while, with Backup Exec this is new
with 9.1.

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Massimo Rosen

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Jan 27, 2004, 11:56:35 AM1/27/04

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Barry,

Barry Schnur wrote:
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> I believe ArcServe does this as well and BE 9.1. Note with ArcServe this
> functionality has been around for a while, with Backup Exec this is new
> with 9.1.

Well, with Arcserve it has been there in AS9.0, but wasn't useable, as
it had the dreaded 4GB file size limit for each backup job, which of
course isn't sufficiient. This is solved in 9.01.
What AS could do for years though is to run a copy job, copying data
from one place to another, but this is a slightly different thing.

Jim Michael

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Jan 27, 2004, 12:14:18 PM1/27/04

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NovaNet 9 has a plugin that lets it back up to disk as well.

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Richard Beels [SysOp]

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Jan 27, 2004, 6:41:45 PM1/27/04

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<me too>
Backup Express can do this as well.
</me too>

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Barry Schnur

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Jan 27, 2004, 7:33:42 PM1/27/04

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> Well, with Arcserve it has been there in AS9.0, but wasn't useable, as
> it had the dreaded 4GB file size limit for each backup job, which of
> course isn't sufficiient. This is solved in 9.01.

OK -- good to know -- 4G is a real problem.

> What AS could do for years though is to run a copy job, copying data
> from one place to another, but this is a slightly different thing.
>

Ah -- that is what I was thinking of.

Thanks for the detail on this.

Barry St.John

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Jan 28, 2004, 12:42:04 PM1/28/04

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In article <q7wRb.827$Wh....@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>, Dave Lunn
wrote:

> Backup Exec 9.1 does backup to disk.

Caveat: Does not work (is not available) if you also have Shared
Storage Option installed. Also is not nearly as good as ARCserve, as
in you must create specific backup-to-disk folders and backup to there.
ARCserve is more like Windows Explorer in that regard.

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