Re: newer backup methods was: Accidentally Lost Data

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/20/07, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> V-tape: If you used virtual tape for your saves, you'd need to move them
> to a network drive somewhere.  If you want to use them to recover the
> iSeries it's kinda useless if they're still on the iSeries needing
> recovery.

can the SAVSYS virtual tape be copied to a DVD or CD, then restore from the DVD?

> Vista: A USB drive is a USB drive.  Why should it matter at all if the
> drive is solid state or platter-based?  Either way you can partition
> them, format as FAT32 or NTFS, and do whatever else you'd care to do.
>
> 16GB Flash drives are out and are under $150 (
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233042 ).
> That's plenty for a modest OS + apps + My Documents set up.  Or just My
> Docs for incremental/differential backups.
>
> I'm not trying to argue here; you may well be right about MS' approach.
> IMO, though, there's no functional difference and MS shouldn't be
> dictating what storage media customers use.

MSFT has a tradition of allowing developers the same access to core
system services that Windows utilities have.  Shadow copy looks to be
the foundation for a custom backup application:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0b4f56e4-0ccc-4626-826a-ed2c4c95c871&DisplayLang=en

-Steve