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12-02-2009 03:07 PM
Cheers for the reply, but every version of BESR to 8.5 is renound for having this problem. I've been asking with every release hoping that finally it does. Typing in BESR USB Disk Rotation and you'll see page after page after page of people asking the same question month after month and being told that the product doesn't work like they were sold. Bare naked BESR has never been able to handle USB rotation without either a) manual intervention, b) third party utils or c) some VBS scripting. All of which are fine if you have onsite techy people, but not when you have 15 remote offices, where the level of technical skill just about reaches swapping the tapes each night and no more. Some examples:-
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/besr-targets-drive-letter-not-specific-drive
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/weekly-drive-rotation-does-not-recognise-new-drive
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-set-besr85-two-drives-get-rotated
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-back-any-disk-specified-drive-letter
I'd like the speed of removable drives, with the simplicity of tape and the advantage of Restore Anyware :)
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Please disregard the above posts from me. I'd edit them out but for what it's worth, they provide good background on where my frustration is at with this.
Anyway, here's what I"m going to do:
Forget 2010 and just reocmmend purchasing 8.5 to my customer. Before even looking at 2010, I had had 8.5 working sufficiently well. I had it doing Independent Recovery Points via 5 backup jobs to 5 REV disk cartridges, one for each day of the week, and it was both doing the backups as well as removing the older image file so disk management was functional.
In my mind, there is no viable alternative to the above - any "desktop edition" product from anybody is likely to be a potential problem for a business trying to use an XP box as a server. And since XP is the 'server' OS of choice for my customer, we don't have any options towards using regular Backup Exec 12.x or BESR Server Edition - the only Symantec product that will work is BESR Desktop Edition. (PS: I would never put any Norton product like Ghost into a business environment).
Also, having just an external USB hard drive attached might work for backups, but not for effective disaster planning. I need media to go offsite each day and the only convenient way is via small removable media. If BESR Desktop Edition supported tape drives, I might go that route but since it doesn't (according to the blog post at least), I am stuck with this REV solution.
So while everything seems to be going in circles, I think I'll just stick with BESR 8.5 and resell that to my client. As long as they're on XP, there's no need to go with a newer version which seems to add more problems than it solves (in my test at least).
CAT, I'm still interested in your email but either way i'm going to stick with BESR 8.5 Desktop Edition even if the hardware has to change.
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