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Date:	Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:56:39 PST8
From:	"Bob" <2lvvuss02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: BACKAGAIN/2000 differential backups

** Reply to message from "J R FOX jr_fox@pacbell.net" on Wed, 5 Apr 2006
10:22:25 PST8

> I guess I'm with Ray on this one. I was a licensed
> user of all the BA versions (for both platforms) right
> up until they quit. Haven't really used them since
> discontinuing the use of tape for backups --

I discontinued using tape a long time ago because it was too unreliable.

> although
> I gather the later versions could use other media,
> such as CD {or maybe even DVD ?}.

BA has always been able to back up to disk.

CDs are another story. I would never backup directly to a CD (you lose some
compression options) but would consider writing the backup file to CD to save
it for an extended period of time.

> Tape capacities did
> not keep up with requirements, and the cost factor on
> DAT-4 was ridiculous and stayed that way. I sort of
> hoped something else -- like the Iomega REV cartridge,
> for example -- would establish itself as both a new
> standard *and* something very cost-effective, but that
> never happened.

I use BA as my backup software as it works well, at least for me. I currently
use a 300gb USB drive to backup all the machines in this house. In the past I
have also used a LAN connected machine as a file server for writing backups but
the backup file size is then limited to 2gb which is a problem these days.

--
Robert Blair

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