On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:26 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
Ken:
From Oracle, I have 1) a "Personal Edition" support license at $80 per/year, 2) "Software Updates" @ $60 per year, and 3) Product Support for $28/year. I had never worked in Oracle until I installed this software myself using only their Installation Guide, so I was as green as you could be. With a "Personal Edition" license, your support is minimal. You can post questions for their support people, but you often end up figuring out your problem before they do. There were a couple of times in my early going where they really saved my bacon, but those problems came due to buggy Linux Installation CDs, which there was no way I could figure out myself. The next level of support, that gives you the ability to get on-line support, costs about $25,000 / year! Since I'm using this software strictly for certification training (no commercial use allowed), I am allowed to use
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 2:42 PM, Ken Schneider wrote: this
cheapo license, but you get what you pay for. I took a quick glance at BackupEdge. Looks similar to G4U. Not sure if it allows backup directly to a USB connected drive as G4U supposedly does. I'll take a closer look at it here shortly. I don't have a network server. I use a router to connect my 2 machines (ones a Windoze). So, I need to be able to back up to a connected hardware device (right?).
It might backup to the usb device but will also backup to CD/DVD devices as well. The plus side is you can create a boot media (CD/DVD) for restore purposes. Boot to the CD and run BackupEdge to restore to a new disk and simply reboot to a running system. I believe you can buy a non-commercial use licence for around $90US. The download non-crippled version can be used for 60 days for testing.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Thanks for the info. I've been hacking around some more with this Storix software I bought and, now that I've figured some things out, it looks like it does that exact same thing. It was $70 so it was a bit pricier. They do have on-line support and their support people have finally gotten me to understand how to operate it. I still might want to check out BackupEdge. For what I'm trying to protect, spending another $50 to check out the competition wouldn't seem to me to be too much to spend. It would also appear that G4U Version 2 does the exact same thing. And it's FREEWARE! I'll probably download it and check it out also. Between these 3, I think I'll find a good solution. I can still restore my 8.1 with YAST, so I'll test going to 9.1 (which I've successfully done before) and then try restores. Worst case is I have to re-install 8.1 out of the box and do a YAST recovery. Once I can successfully restore 9.1, I'll move on to 9.2 and then 9.3. From what I read on the list, I get the impression that 9.1 to 9.2 can be tricky. Thanks, Greg W