Summary: We backup a 1TB of data daily and we use a device called DataDomain. Does a good job of file compressing and will cut your downtime. http://www.datado...
Summary: Hi! My NT server is screwed up. I managed to back up all the data using the tape drive which came with my Dell Server. I used tapes to back it up. Now...
Summary: I have a small file server where the files are stored on 3 120GB hard drives configured as a RAID-5 (240GB of usable space). I was to get an external ...
Summary: Have a client with a Dell server runnig windows 2003 server. They have the system backing up to a pair of 500 gig usb drive. The swap out one for the...
Summary: I don't know that I would use images. The images from 3 different PC's could well be bigger than your 30 GB drive depending on how much data is on ea...
Summary: We already have Win2K3 server in our Head Office and have a single domain forest. We are planning to implement Win2K3 servers in our state offices tha...
Summary: Your best bet is to do a backup locally on the XP machine with ntbackup and have it save the backup to a file on the hard drive. Then copy that file ...
Summary: Our current back up scheme is becoming a real problem to manage. We use NTBackup and a bunch of scripts to backup our servers. The problem is that t...
Summary: Hi, I am trying to backup all of our XP network clients using Windows NTBackup. When I expand the nodes 'My Network Places' is always greyed out and...
Summary: I recently ran into a problem I can't explain with Windows Backup on server 2003. For some reason (after checking the log) some files are not being b...
Summary: I wish to perform daily/weekly/fortnightly/monthly back up using many tapes through the standard 2003 server backup utility at 11pm. When using the sc...
Summary: Hi, I am looking for some advice regarding backing-up and restoring of an Win Server 2003 operating system. A client has asked me to replace their exi...
Summary: There is no easy answer except CYA (cover your ass) with a memo stating why this is NOT A GOOD IDEA and all the things that can go wrong. Fortunately ...
Summary: 12GB for a C: drive is often plenty, it just depends what you are doing. Do you have volume shadow copy enabled? That can eat up GBs of data. Have yo...
Summary: I'm having problems backing up my system. Server OS is W2003 with service pack1, I'm trying to use Veritas V10 with service pack1. Back up does not co...
Summary: guys i run a windows 2003 server with DAT 72 tape drive,(DDS 4 Tape supports 20GB uncompressed and 40GB compressed)when i back up a 25GB data file,it ...
Summary: recently my echange server was running at close to capacity, to reduce the amount of data we deleted unwanted emails and archived. in exchange system ...
Summary: Hey everyone, Everyone here's amazing so wanted to ask a question. Quick background: I run Windows Server 2003. It has Active Directory with about 6...
Summary: First off your 1TB of data storage is nuts. That is a raid0 array. No fault tolerance. You lose a single drive you lost a TB of data. Good way to l...
Summary: The "can't be locked" part is normal if you run chkdsk from within Windows. It should ask you if you want the drive to be checked next time you reboot...
Summary: (Win2k SBS related post, but I am sure it applies to 2003 as well) Ok, here is my situation. My server died wich contained Win2k SBS with 25 user lic...
Summary: I have found if your backing up alot of small files it takes alot longer. I have a DLT S4 .. it says it will backup 800GB uncompressed (one tape) in 1...
Summary: With a probable cause of TCPIP.SYS I would be looking at changing the NIC driver - upgrade it OR downgrade it one version. Look through your Windows ...
Summary: If I'm not mistaken, ntbackup won't do mapped drives. That is to say, will not backup to a remote server across the network (using a mapped drive). W...
Summary: ntbackup was OK for a while, untill I noticed that it wouldn't run it's scheduled backup unless someone was logged onto the server via RDP. Your didn'...