angus Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Is anyone using the New Disk-to-Disk Backup and what is your feelings about the product. Thanks Angus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 The disk to disk product is the same as other Retrospect versions except it only support Disk Backup Sets, no tape support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugenel1 Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 I had a hope it does mirroring, but technical help desk told me: it is not. I hoped, I can use my USB ( backup ) hard drive as a bootable (hardware supports it !!!!!) in case main IDE hard drive will die. May be next release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awnews Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Can you either just make the USB bootable by installing an OS on it *or* by (one-time event) mirroring the main IDE to the USB using Ghost/Drive Image (seems like something of a waste based on space? Maybe partition it first)? Then use the remaining space or other partiton(s) as a destination for Retrospect backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 As far as I know, I don't believe that you can boot from a USB device. It's a kind of "chicken and the egg" scenario. The drivers must load *before* the device can be used. But the device must be used to access the drivers, so you can't boot from it...This does not seem to be the case with Firewire (IEEE 1394). Hope this helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awnews Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Quote: emulator said: As far as I know, I don't believe that you can boot from a USB device. It's a kind of "chicken and the egg" scenario. The drivers must load *before* the device can be used. But the device must be used to access the drivers, so you can't boot from it...This does not seem to be the case with Firewire (IEEE 1394). I agree, but I was just going by what was posted: > USB ( backup ) hard drive as a bootable (hardware supports it !!!!!) so I assumed he had a way to do it. My "workaround" ("bootable" USB drive) is to use an IDE drive (OS configed/installed and bootable) installed in a USB enclosure. So booting from it, in an emergency restore situation, does require that it be removed from the USB enclosure and booted as an IDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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