Using a USB flash drive with GoBack 3?

[John Geddes]

I have a copy of GoBack 3, but as all my HDDs are now in RAID arrays
(one RAID-0 pair, one RAID-1 pair), gather that I cannot use GoBack 3
with them.

In fact, it is only a very few files for which GoBack protection really
matters, and I wondered about sticking a 512Mb USB2 Memory Key into the
back of the PC and leaving it there, and running GoBack on that.

But I read that GoBack doesn't like Removable drives either. Is there
any way of persuading XP (Pro) that this potentially-removable drive
will actually be left in place all the time, and allow it to be defined
as a non-removable disk?

John Geddes
England

 

[Malke]

I have a copy of GoBack 3, but as all my HDDs are now in RAID arrays
(one RAID-0 pair, one RAID-1 pair), gather that I cannot use GoBack 3
with them.

In fact, it is only a very few files for which GoBack protection
really matters, and I wondered about sticking a 512Mb USB2 Memory Key
into the back of the PC and leaving it there, and running GoBack on
that.

But I read that GoBack doesn't like Removable drives either. Is there
any way of persuading XP (Pro) that this potentially-removable drive
will actually be left in place all the time, and allow it to be
defined as a non-removable disk?

I can't answer your questions about GoBack. Contact Symantec tech
support for help with their products. Since you say you only have a few
files that need to be backed up, a better solution for you would be to
install a backup program like Second Copy (www.centered.com). Buy a
removable usb/firewire hard drive. Have Second Copy (or other backup
program) copy the files you care about to the removable hard drive at a
schedule you prefer. Regularly burn the backup from the removable hard
drive to cd/dvd-r and put it somewhere else for safekeeping.

Malke

 

[John Geddes]

John Geddes wrote:




I can't answer your questions about GoBack. Contact Symantec tech
support for help with their products. Since you say you only have a few
files that need to be backed up, a better solution for you would be to
install a backup program like Second Copy (www.centered.com). Buy a
removable usb/firewire hard drive. Have Second Copy (or other backup
program) copy the files you care about to the removable hard drive at a
schedule you prefer. Regularly burn the backup from the removable hard
drive to cd/dvd-r and put it somewhere else for safekeeping.

Malke

That approach is fine for daily or twice-daily backup, but it doesn't
sound viable for the every-ten-minutes archiving that I want when
editing drawings with Visio 5. With Goback, one can save the file with
Control-S every few minutes, and in the event of disaster (eg power
failure, which seems to wreck open Visio 5 drawings), you can then go
back easily to the last good copy of the file.

John Geddes

 

[Malke]

That approach is fine for daily or twice-daily backup, but it doesn't
sound viable for the every-ten-minutes archiving that I want when
editing drawings with Visio 5. With Goback, one can save the file with
Control-S every few minutes, and in the event of disaster (eg power
failure, which seems to wreck open Visio 5 drawings), you can then go
back easily to the last good copy of the file.

John Geddes

Then here are some links to Symantec tech support/help:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/index.html - Symantec tech support
http://live-symantec.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/live_symantec.cfg/php/enduser/live.php
- Symantec Live Chat
http://castlecops.com/f80-Norton_Anti_Virus.html - forum for Symantec
products at CastleCops (don't know if GoBack is one of them).

Malke

 

[John Geddes]

John Geddes wrote:




Then here are some links to Symantec tech support/help:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/index.html - Symantec tech support
http://live-symantec.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/live_symantec.cfg/php/enduser/live.php
- Symantec Live Chat
http://castlecops.com/f80-Norton_Anti_Virus.html - forum for Symantec
products at CastleCops (don't know if GoBack is one of them).

Malke

Thanks for the link, but that doesn't help:

Goback FAQ says:

"GoBack does not protect removable media, such as floppy disks, Zip
disks, and so forth."

"Not Supported ... * Drive systems using striping (RAID), dynamic
disks, simple volumes, mirrored volumes, or spanned volumes. "

So - back to my original question - is there any way to get XP to treat
a memory key as non-removable?

John Geddes

 

[DL]

I dont have the answer to your Q but I seem to recall 2nd copy had the
facility to schedule a backup every 10 mins. Since its a schedual not quite
the same as a keybd instigation.
Perhaps some other backup apps have a keybd instigation for a backup
process.
PS You appear to be in the UK so what gives with pwr probs? Thought of UPS?

 

[Malke]

Goback FAQ says:

"GoBack does not protect removable media, such as floppy disks, Zip
disks, and so forth."

"Not Supported ... * Drive systems using striping (RAID), dynamic
disks, simple volumes, mirrored volumes, or spanned volumes. "

So - back to my original question - is there any way to get XP to
treat a memory key as non-removable?

Not that I know of. Normally one doesn't try to change the operating
system because an application doesn't work the way you want. Either use
a different application, change your way of backing up, or live with
things the way they are.

Good luck,

Malke