I only just got to set up 1st ChronoSync backup last night, after setting up ChronoAgents, and setting schedule. All old jobs have been dragged over (un-DVD'd ones, that is), from G5s, and are included in current backup. I'm not concerned about continuity from my Retro 6 archive, as I consider it flaky, at best. So am really just looking at current jobs and system backup.
#CHRONOSYNC MIRROR VS BACKUP ARCHIVE#
I try and archive jobs to DVD fairly quickly.
My sophistication level on backup is, well, neophyte. Quote from: Slappy on November 23, 2010, 10:05:49 AMSo, if you're moving away from Retrospect, is it even possible to migrate those archived sets to another system? Or, are you forced to keep one legacy machines around (and all of the corresponding media) to retrieve jobs locked into Retrospect? Or use remote desktop to search from the Windows server. We have to go to the Windows server and do the search. It's not available over the network though. We already have Veritas Backup though and they catalog the archive when it does it. That's exactly what we are going to do when we finish our last box of tapes that we already have. "Hey Mike, Pop Drive 2007_002_A into the toaster, I need to get some files." Last part of the puzzle that I'm just starting to look at is to get a system in place that lets me capture a directory of the drive contents - that is available for searching over the network. (Sony discontinued AIT development, so AIT is now a dying technology.
Quote from: mwc on November 12, 2010, 10:43:05 AMI'm looking to get a drive toaster (i.e like the VoyagerQ from ) - then getting a few 2TB bare drives to use with it.then using Chronosync to set up a dual backup - requires me to swap drives every day or so to keep a backup of the backup.but that is what I'm thinking will work for us, as the days of tape archives seems about over for us.