Good automated RAID backup software?

TheSmJTheSmJ
edited February 2004 in Hardware
Since I am now firmly entrenched into the blazing fast world of RAID-0, I'm wondering what you guys use to back up your arrays, and how you do it?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I supposed I should probably do that..... ;D
  • Park_7677Park_7677 Missouri Member
    edited February 2004
    I use WinRar with batch scripts... good stuff.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2004
    Compression would be nice, as long as it doesn't mess with file attributes and all that.

    I'd be be cool if I could use Ghost, or a ghost type program to do it. Although I doubt such a thing would be possible when it's running from the same drive i'ts imaging.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Ghost doesn't run directly from the drive. It's transfered to ram at bootup although it wouldn't matter if it's just reading. You could also just create a boot disk. But I don't know if you can schedule Norton Ghost
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    Ghost doesn't run directly from the drive. It's transfered to ram at bootup although it wouldn't matter if it's just reading. You could also just create a boot disk. But I don't know if you can schedule Norton Ghost


    Hence the reason I don think it would work.

    And it would matter, because the data would have to be in a "shut down" state, otherwise you'd get (or thje possibility of) data curruption when Windows goes to boot from a drive which would appear to have just suffered a sudden coldboot... if you know what I mean...

    It's 4:30AM, too late (or early) to explain this with clarity...
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2004
    ghost works. DI works. But heck Windoes own backup function works also. Its one of the greatly underappreciated functions in win2k/winxp.

    And I just copy the important stuff on my raid that I want backed up. No need to get fancy and have something screw up in my case. Pretty simple. Tag five directorys in explorer and copy it to another server on my network. Next day do it to a differant server.

    Tex
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I still use Park's backup script. Great tool dude! Dumps everything I care about onto another hard drive every week.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2004
    What all do you guys back up? If not the whole smash, what directories?
  • Park_7677Park_7677 Missouri Member
    edited February 2004
    I back up my web development stuff (PHP/MySQL), "My Documents" folder (saved games and such), and my OE files.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I'm inspired... I smell a backup article coming.....
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited February 2004
    Please do primesuspect. I haven't found a good program that will backup just the directories of static data files without a hassle. I've tried a few programs but still am not satisfied. One that will can backup to a usb hard drive or span across multiple dvd disks.

    KingFish
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2004
    My documents ( have the family now trained that if its not in there its not backed up)

    my "downloads"
    my "installs"
    my "mp3s"
    my ISO's
    Oracle databases.

    Most box's have a image when they were first installed and all apps on etc...

    but daily I backup "My documents which gets emails" and Oracle
    weekly I back up the installs and downloads and MP3's

    most folks woudl be well served to even master XP's backup utility. It does a great job restoring the OS and system state etc..
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