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RE: Backups - how do you do them?


  • Subject: RE: Backups - how do you do them?
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 22:58:20 -0000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 December 2004 22:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Backups - how do you do them?
>
>
> Actually, in a slight tip-of-the-hat to NAS, I now store my
> media on a NT4 server rather than the 2003 server everything
> else lives on - the overheads of win2K and win2K3 being just
> too damn smart for their own good was becoming a real pain,
> so I decided to see how well old NT4 SP6 would do on modern
> hardware - very nice indeed!!
>
> Our media server (.8Tb) boots in less than ten seconds, and
> opening media is
> *lightning* fast. One point worth noting - it's actually
> faster using a 100Mb card than a Gigabit one - NT4's drivers
> for the GiG cards is buggy as hell.
>
> Ian.

Hmmm ... Hadn't thought of going back to NT Server.

My 2003 Server install decided to barf last week (of course it wasn't legit
so I can hardly complain) so I need to reinstall that server ... Do you
know
whether NT Server supports firewire drives?

Phil




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