Re: Acronis True Image Backups
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Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:47:18 -0700
"Attila" <acsokai_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does anybody have experience with Acronis True Image backups? I am
thinking
> of testing it out on the SBS 2003, for nightly autmated image backups.
Good choice. Go for it.
> This
> way, my reasoning is, I could recover from a disaster much faster.
Exactly.
> I am
> thinking of installing a HD cade, and buying about five HDs, and swapping
> them out nightly to do the image.
Exactly and HDs are vastly faster and more reliable than a tape IF properly
handled.
KingWin makes the shock mounted removeable HD rack/tray ~$30 KF-83 and other
models if you don't want SATA.
I use ~$180 250GB WDC SATA HDs but I push the Acronis image to an XP Pro
workstation over 1000BT(inexpensive these days) where the removeable HD is.
Depending on the size of your compressed server image you may be able to get
several images on a single HD making five HDs often unnecessary.
I use padded carrying cases for transport.
By the way that XP Pro workstation is a general use machine which is HW
identical to the server. Thus if there is a server HW failure then recovery
is minutes away. Restoring even an Acronis image is an hour like job. I
keep a HD on that workstation that is an extra server model HD(SATA 80GB
Raptor ~$200) that also has last night's server image restored to it AND
that plus the identical machine does provide the likelihood of a recovery
for most ANY failure in minutes and even by a non-expert.
I use an inexpensive top OCer's desktop mobo as they are the best engineered
and most stable..Asus P4C800-E Deluxe + 3GHz Prescott + 1GB dual channel ECC
RAM. I of course run it entirely at spec settings/speeds for server usage
which gives ROCK SOLID stability. I use two SATA WDC 80GB Raptors for the
HDs. They're setup using W2K3's intrinsic SW RAID 1 on the Intel ICH5R ATA
controller. For the 2nd NIC to the DSL modem(10BT is sufficient) I use a
LanReady LA-1000+(Realtek chipset) ~$20.
No, it's not on the HCL/Catalog but all the components are directly or
implicitly on the HCL. Now for anything close performance, feature or
stability wise you wanna compare prices to stuff on the white list<g>? The
$$$HCL$$$ is just that.
I just build them myself in inexpensive but feature rich cases and
relatively expensive/good power supplies and good fans. We haven't done
much gaming on the server YET<G> so the display card needs are modest.
HOWEVER the general use workstation is also the Photoshop machine so to
maintain indenticality both have Matrox P650 display cards.
Sometimes I save a few bucks as both that workstation and server easily
share(sneakernet) a slick external bootable USB2 Sony DW-U18A CD/DVD+-RW
drive(~$110 now).
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