D'oh! Backup issue solved - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Sep 2000

...
 I've used a product called Ghost that will 1) make
and save disk images, 2)
...
 allow those images to be written to a disk with
different partition sizes,
...
 etc. than the original, and 3) be used over a network.
The only downside
I've seen (unless they have changed their policy in the last year or so) is
...
 that it is sold on a 100 user license that cost about
$750 or so. I managed
...
 to buy a 50 user license at half the cost after I
explained that we were
doing a one shot transfer to set up some machines. A good product! 
After buying an ODBS driver from merant at $4000 for a single server CPU
(for paradox mind you) well this is not a a big problem.  Actually it
would
be a single cpu thing as I want to backup the machine so if it failed I
could
clone it to the matching one of the pair in minimal time.

On a different level some PC software is really wacked pricewise.

Anyone reading this could suggest a good low cost POP3/SMTP package
for NT4 server with 40 users (not internet), contact me off list.  IT
doesn't
have to forward mail to the internet as we dont have such a
connection...yet.

Allison