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Re: Retroscpect Help

At 4:36 PM -0500 1/28/03, Chip Scheide wrote:
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Why not just use psync or rsync. It's easier to script and cron.
while not gettign into the GUI vs CLI issue - again
CLI #*&ing sucks - I will not use i unles there is no other way -

with CCC there is NO scripting nor croning required - the app does all
this and is self contained

You don't need to script anything to use either psync or rsync. But my point is you can, but you can't script CCC the same way. You can add it to cron, or use cronnix if you're a GUI weenie.

Hey, go wild, use CCC. I think admins that can't issue a simple statement at the command line aren't very useful, but that's my opinion.

But here's my big question, when you're down to bare metal, how you gonna run CCC? You can't.

>>Then in theory - if the server OS drive fails, I can in minutes, be up
and running and can defer the repair until a non peak time.
yes - MINUTES!!!!!!!!
the CCC drive is bootable -
reset the boot the disk - restart the machine = running server

You said you were restoring the drive. All that does is boot off the device.

>It takes about an hour or two to copy a drive. Look at the data
sizes, look at the poor transfer rates of firewire/IDE drives, and do
some quick math. .
theory - having never timed a Firewrie drive -
400mbps = ~50MB/sec

Yeah, but the drive doesn't write at 400MB/sec, it doesn't even read that fast.

1000/50 = 200sec
200/60 = 3.33minutes =

lets see...
the OS is what? 2gigs max
that means 6.5 minutes to copy the OS back to a new/reformatted drive

rotflol -- give yourself an hour.

if the transfer is 1/3 of theory that is 20 minutes - still not
unreasonable.

what do you beleive is faster - and/or more convient?

Being more realistic in your times.
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-dhan
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