(My system, in brief: Win2K/SP3 machine, P3/1027MHz/512MB RAM/2-Seagate Cheetah HDDs/Seagate STTN20000N SCSI Travan 20 Tape Drive.)
I recently checked the Creative Web site for driver upgrades for my Live! 5.1 Gamer (this is because I am STUPID!). To make matters brief, they listed an update to Win2K/XP, which I happily downloaded, installed, and restarted.
GOT NOTHING BUT THE BSOD on bootup. Could not get to Safe Mode, did not know what files to delete from the Console to get back into the game. However, having tape backup, and a daily differential backup, I figured I would save the day with tape. Not this time. Whatever Creative loaded into system or system32, or wherever, made a 3 hour restore useless.
All is not lost, however, so I simply (WHAT A MISTAKE) formatted the drive, reinstalled Win2K, reinstalled Veritas Backup Exec (CURSE THAT SOFTWARE!!!) and did a restore.
On other occassions, that would have worked, but I got more screwed up messages about drivers, software, etc., that I threw my hands in the air, SCSI formatted the C:\ and reinstalled the works.
Now I do not care to use Veritas anymore, since it has left me doing useless backups. The Win2K backup (by Veritas) has no software compression, and the Seagate Tape Drive has no hardware compression.
So I am looking for some recommendations of a decent backup software. I am experimenting with Tapeware 6.3 on a 30 day download, and I wonder if this might be what to go with.
Looking for a recommendation, appreciate email replies as well, steven@sohn.org
I recently checked the Creative Web site for driver upgrades for my Live! 5.1 Gamer (this is because I am STUPID!). To make matters brief, they listed an update to Win2K/XP, which I happily downloaded, installed, and restarted.
GOT NOTHING BUT THE BSOD on bootup. Could not get to Safe Mode, did not know what files to delete from the Console to get back into the game. However, having tape backup, and a daily differential backup, I figured I would save the day with tape. Not this time. Whatever Creative loaded into system or system32, or wherever, made a 3 hour restore useless.
All is not lost, however, so I simply (WHAT A MISTAKE) formatted the drive, reinstalled Win2K, reinstalled Veritas Backup Exec (CURSE THAT SOFTWARE!!!) and did a restore.
On other occassions, that would have worked, but I got more screwed up messages about drivers, software, etc., that I threw my hands in the air, SCSI formatted the C:\ and reinstalled the works.
Now I do not care to use Veritas anymore, since it has left me doing useless backups. The Win2K backup (by Veritas) has no software compression, and the Seagate Tape Drive has no hardware compression.
So I am looking for some recommendations of a decent backup software. I am experimenting with Tapeware 6.3 on a 30 day download, and I wonder if this might be what to go with.
Looking for a recommendation, appreciate email replies as well, steven@sohn.org