Having recently been employed for my CAD skills, I am finding that my (fairly good) knowledge of computers is being called upon in the office. The biggest problem I have come across is Back Ups.
We have a server PC, with a hard drive thats been partitioned 3 ways. ‘C:’ being the OS, ‘D:’ being the Back Up drive, and ‘D:’ being the constantly accessed Data drive. It has a 3mmDDS tape drive installed which I have been attempting to get to grips with. So far I have managed to get manual, daily Back Ups to work, but have had no luck whatsoever with Scheduled Back Ups. Tho the wizard seems to do what I ask, the Back Up’s constantly fail to start. Any advice?
Secondly, I have just tried doing a temporary Restore to one of the other office PC’s, (if only to see if it works!). I can’t do a test Back Up to the original location, for fear of losing whats been done, AND the distinct lack of space! In doing this, I find it’ll take up to 105 DAYS to back up!! Any help here??
Finally, does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can do regular Back Ups faster and more efficiently? We are now looking at possibly getting a DVD Writer/Re-Writer, with re-writable DVD’s, and manually burning EVERYTHING each evening.
I hasten to add that the Data we need to save on a regular basis amounts to, in the region of, 4gig.
As always, any help, whatsoever, would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Finally, a message for Donovan Marsden, if you’re out there : GET IN TOUCH!!!
