JLTollefson
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Effective backup/restores for non-networked legacy Dos 6.22, WFW 3.11, and Windows 95 machines
Due to vendor products requiring Dos 6.22, WFW 3.11, Windows 95, and 98 we cannot upgrade these platforms unfortunately.
With that trying to find a cost and time effective way to backup/restore these non-networked DOS, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows 95 machines preferably to an external device.
I realize that today's USB drives will not work but is there any parallel or serial device that we could attach and get a complete backup? We have nearly 70 machines like this so my thought was to have a dedicated laptop with a program like LapLink to copy each of the drives to a subdirectory on the laptop. Then the laptop could be attached to the network and backed up or imaged. We have standardized on Symantec System Recovery for our W2K and above workstations and servers.
After going through a lot of threads on just local backups to the hard drive there would be some users who may still be going through what we are doing
With that trying to find a cost and time effective way to backup/restore these non-networked DOS, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows 95 machines preferably to an external device.
I realize that today's USB drives will not work but is there any parallel or serial device that we could attach and get a complete backup? We have nearly 70 machines like this so my thought was to have a dedicated laptop with a program like LapLink to copy each of the drives to a subdirectory on the laptop. Then the laptop could be attached to the network and backed up or imaged. We have standardized on Symantec System Recovery for our W2K and above workstations and servers.
After going through a lot of threads on just local backups to the hard drive there would be some users who may still be going through what we are doing
Ben Hart
Are these machines available during the night? I realize there could be a large amount of overhead, but what's wrong with using some batch scripts to like xcopy the important directories to a central location preferably running a newer revision OS with it's own tape drive?
I apologize, I didn't notice the part about these machines not being networked.
Seems like either your idea of a laptop would be the only option.. or possibly an older parallel ZIP/Jaz drive..
Seems like either your idea of a laptop would be the only option.. or possibly an older parallel ZIP/Jaz drive..
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I didn't realize there was an IDE to CF adapter. I think we are going to extend the IDE cable so that we can attach the CF adapter, reboot the machine, and script a backup. Disconnect and move on to the next machine that has the IDE cable extended also.
Fairly cheap yet effective for legacy backup/restores.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Fairly cheap yet effective for legacy backup/restores.
Thanks!
Thanks!