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#1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 10:23 AM

Chris Fowler typed (on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:42:52PM -0400):
| Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
| >
| > You don't really want to do this. Spend the $300 for a proper backup
| > suite, either BackupEDGE or Lone-Tar.
| >
|
| I'm not going to argue there. My customer does not
| want to spend to dough for those products. I would prefer
| something that can do it all.

When I first held myself out to be a consultant for SCO Unix products, a
friend of mine who was already in the game strongly advised me to never
touch the keyboard of a prospective client which was not running either
Lone-Tar or BackupEDGE. SCO Operating Systems are justly vaunted for
their reliability. I'm not sure I'd say as much for the power grid,
let alone for any parts inside the computer.

I suggest you drop this customer, unless of course they are happy to
contemplate paying you quite a bit more than $300 when something does go
awry.

I feel so strongly about this that I would not spend two minutes trying
to help you manage backups without either of those suites.

--
JP

#2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 10:23 AM

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
....
>When I first held myself out to be a consultant for SCO Unix products, a
>friend of mine who was already in the game strongly advised me to never
>touch the keyboard of a prospective client which was not running either
>Lone-Tar or BackupEDGE. SCO Operating Systems are justly vaunted for
>their reliability. I'm not sure I'd say as much for the power grid,
>let alone for any parts inside the computer.

Way back when I took an exam to become an SCO OpenDesktop reseller, I
failed the part of the test dealing with backups. I wrote then that
anybody who used their brain-dead backup procedures was nuts. I think that
BackupEdge was called CTAR back then.

The cost of the backup software will be recovered the first time somebody
has to do an unscheduled recovery, or perhaps if one just has to
repartition or do a scheduled replacement of a hard drive.

Bill
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