Re: Iomega REV drive and SBS 2003 SP1 - reliable ?



Wow... interesting program. Thanks for the link.

I had bad experiences with the REV on SBS... but mostly because of Iomega
drivers. Are you sure that with this I will not need to load them?

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Javier [SBS MVP]
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"cristalink" <cristalink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> transfer rates seemed lower than expected
>
> Do you use NTBackup? If so then http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/ will
> make your REV backups much faster. Also you won't need buggy Iomega
> drivers.
>
>
> "Roger Cook" <akazare@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have a new server (Dell Poweredge 1800 with a SATA array) and was hoping
>>to use an external USB Iomega REV drive for backup instead of my more
>>usual tape drive. All seemed to be going OK, although transfer rates
>>seemed lower than expected when the server generated a STOP error today
>>and rebooted itself. I ran it for several days before installing the REV
>>drive with no problem and can't help thinking that it might be the REV
>>driver that caused this (although it also ran OK for several days after
>>installation as well and backs up without a problem) - is anyone else
>>reliably using a USB REV with a Dell Poweredge server and SBS 2003 SP1 ?
>>
>> Roger Cook
>>
>
>


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