Recent content by pro956

Check the bios settings to see if those usbs are even enabled

When I plug my usb flash drive in, windows xp clearly recognizes it, but then it never shows up in My Computer. If I restart my PC with the drive connected, it always shows up in My Computer. The drive shows up on other xp installations whenever I connect it. Any ideas? Thanks

Thanks everyone for the help! My situation has been fully taken care of and I really do appreciate all of the advice given.

Why do you suggest not to use incremental backups? What would you recommend instead? differential incremental backups?cumulative incremental backups? Thanks!

It seems that I should definitely consider outsourcing this. I was hoping I could do the task on my own and have a tough time, but learn a lot in turn. That might take way too long considering I work full time and am a full time student as well. Does anyone have any recommendations for...

Around 300gb to backup, but I would like to handle much more in the future. Budget should be around 5k-10k, but I think I can work around it. About 150 people are running off the servers. Downtime cripples the workforce, but it's not the end of the world... Sooner is better than later...

Thanks guys, wow this forum is great, I just posted a few minutes ago too. I'd appreciate input from other people as well. I'm going to look into the advice you are giving me and come back with more questions :) I have a lot to learn :(

Thanks for the info. In terms of this not being in the software forum: I'm also interested in hardware-- I'm not sure if I should have a server dedicated to backup of the other servers. I'm not sure if I should look into tape backups. etc etc

Okay, so I just fell into this new job b/c a boss left. We have a bunch of Servers (domain, exchange, novell, database, etc etc) About 7 servers. Anyway, there are ZERO backups being made of all of these servers, and I can only imagine what might happen if something goes wrong. I am not...