Re: Backup Software rcommendation

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O6tvjbfjIHA.5412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OK, let me cut to the chase on this one, and try to streamline this response a bit:

Are you saying you actually have installed Ghost, True Image, AND Casper (or at least two of the above) on some computers (that is, all programs *together*), and have never run into these potential low-level disk access/monitoring conflicts (and yes, of course, assuming the user isn't trying to run them simulataneously!)?

If you need someone to say they do, I will gladly fess up that I have both Ghost v.9 and ATI Enterprise Server installed. They've been creating backups over a network for over two years and I have never run into any problems. If a disk on a machine failed to boot for any numerous purpose other than a dead harddrive, toss in either a Ghost or ATI Recovery CD in the dead PCs DVD/CD drive to gain access to the image file and restore the drive anywhere within 10 mins to an hour depending on the image size. And believe you-me, I've restored drives with well over 200GB of data on them.


The thing here is that these programs must be continously monitoring the hard drives and need fast access to them (and you can see their running tasks in task manager, even though the user is not running the program), and if they both request access at the same time, there may be a race condition, and potential lockup.

Now you're way off Bill. They run as a Service due to scheduled backups set by the user, all they're doing is sitting and waiting for a command que to wake them up to perform their task. While they sit and wait they may be using up memory, yet they aren't doing anything else. If yours is continually on the job monitoring other disks, there's something amiss and you need to find out what.


And I think that was what the PC Magazine article cautioning against installing some of these programs together (note: regardless of their not being "run", per se, by the user, simultaneously), was saying. Perhaps he was being a bit too conservative.





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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
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