Meese....definitely more worried about saving/rescuing/restoring data..such as, say...quickbooks financial info, peachtree info, or even the data as Tazman was referring to. As far as restoring comps, at this point, to me, thats just a rebuild...I think the level of customer I work for right now, they wouldnt NEED the comp to be back online in an hour...they just want to not lose months of data.
This prog looks as if it has some promise
http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/
Taz... "The batch file copies / overwrites the entire contents of the RAID setup - c: to the third drive - d:. Another batch file on the desktop backs up the database to the CDRW daily."
How big is the database? I assume that you did a full backup to cdrw and now the batch file tells it just to backup THAT DAYS worth of data? So is that incremental or differential? lol. I am just trying to figure out how much data is being written to the cdrw daily...i:e: how often do they have to change the cd etc.
So is that setup like with NEro InCD or Roxio DirectCD packet writing where you format the cd first??
Sorry to be a pest guys, but I need to learn this stuff cold, lol. Before too long my name will be in the newspapers in ads saying I will come to peoples businesses and do this stuff!!! lol. (have to start somewhere) SO I want to have a few practical backup schemes in my head to be able to have something to offer....its mostly going to be small workgroup stuff at first...nothing on the level of domains etc, even though I am studying for mcse also.
JP