Re: Disk image software, Paragon Drive Backup

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Thanks a lot Les,

Your last remarks about relying on Drive Backup for bare metal restore
and possible RAID hardware recognition are particularly relevant. We've
ordered a SuperMicro system with SATA hardware RAID level 1 (WD Raptor
hds). Hopefully, Paragon has fixed sp1 issues by now.

David F.

"Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:%23yTYdtMgFHA.3940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi David,
>
> It works pretty well.
>
> I live imaged drives, partitions, and entire boxes, and was able to
> destroy and recover them in short order, with only minor issues that
> weren't related to Paragon - with one exception that I was able to
> work around.
>
> I had one test system that ran for about 60 days running both
> SBSbackup, and then Paragon drive backup sheduled daily doing a live
> image to a USB drive. It worked fine, I had lots of restore options
> ;-), with both SBSbackup and Paragon offering everything from single
> file restore to bare metal recovery.
>
> After SBS2k3 SP1, I had an issue with Paragon; booting from the
> recovery CD failed to detect my SCSI Raid disk with the most current
> recovery CD. I was able to restore the system with an older recovery
> CD - I didn't completely get to the bottom of this issue.
>
> It's a good product, capable of scheduled live imaging; and file,
> folder, partition, drive, and entire server restores. Including
> re-sizing on restore. I'd love to see it image to tape, but it doesn't
> do that.
>
> If you're going to rely on it for bare metal restore from image, then
> I'd suggest you test the recovery CD with your hardware - make sure it
> detects your disk subsystem - and sort any issues out if it doesn't.
>
> --
> Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> SBS Rocks !
>
>
> "David F" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23maZRbDgFHA.1480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Anyone having success with Paragon Drive Backup?
>>
>> A few months ago (March 11) Les Connors said he was evaluating it.
>> Yo, Les, you there? Consider the price differential:
>> Paragon Drive Backup $49, Professional version $99
>> Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows $699
>> I'm probably missing something, but $699 kinda blows our budget.
>> Suggestions? Thanks.
>>
>
>


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