[Pc_Support] RE: Backup software suggestions (Windows, Cygwin or Linux)

[Damien McKenna]

Quoting "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org>:
> Well, Microsoft's Backup uses an aged Backup Exec format, but most 
> Backup Exec programs can read it.
> It is just "crippled" with file number/index limitations (that I 
> found out about much later).

Fairly reasonable, if only it wasn't so limited.  I need to look into 
the other
programs too.

> Also don't forget that NT5+ comes with "pax" (POSIX/SUS replacement 
> for cpio/tar), although I don't know how capable the NT version is
> for backing up NT ACL/SID info.
> But that shouldn't matter of you're running on FAT32.

Indeed.  I'll look that one up, thanks.

> Also don't forget that rsync to a Linux box is always an option too.

No it isn't :-P this is a one gun house IYKWIM.  At that rate I would 
have just
bought two external firewire drives, but I wanted to have something easier to
handle & archive, hence tapes.

-- 
Damien McKenna, Husband, Father, Geek
http://www.mc-kenna.com/ - damien at mc-kenna.com

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