[labnetwork] System backups

[George P. Watson]

Hi Keith,

 

We have the same problem, including a computer running OS/2 and one
running Windows 3.11.  We recently asked our information technology
department to help backup the drives of our older computers.  They
recommended that besides keeping a copy of each disk on a server, that
we configure new harddrives with the disk images (Some of the drives may
be hard to find in the future).  We  are installing the new drives in
our tools and keeping the original drives as backups, just in case.  We
have to shut down the tools and pull the drives out, about a one day
turn-around.  Take good photos if they are hard-to-access industrial
computers with lots of I/O connections.

 

George Patrick Watson (Pat)

Princeton

From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu
[mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Keith Bradshaw
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 3:31 PM
To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: [labnetwork] System backups

 

We have 35 computers running systems in our clean room.

Stuff like the Ellipsometer, PECVD,Etchers, SEM, three different RTA's,
Furnaces.

How do you back up and protect all these systems from a disk failure?

We use WIN95, 98, and XP....whatever the manufacturers were using when
they wrote the operating software.

cordially,

Keith Bradshaw
University of Texas at Dallas

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