It's one of those "iffy" things - running NT 4.0 with SP3 or SP4 on a Gateway
PII-350 (or on an older Micron Pentium) with 128 MB, using winAT eventually
"fails" to execute ntbackup on our POS PCs (running the Sable POS software).
I.e., the task manager will show ntbackup as a process, but it won't actually
run, or appear in any form, either minimized or as a foreground process.
Resetting a couple of times a week prevents the "undead" process syndrome.
This has happened on 4 different machines that were supposed to backup each
night. I've heard of other NT programs "entropying", so I didn't think it was
that unusual.
Thanks,
Jeff
Jason Hirsch wrote:
>
> Whoa- you have to reboot to run ntbackup? I've been running it for 2
> years on our server with no probs.... how are you executing it? I think
> we spawn it with winAT or something... unfortunately our short-sited IT
> guy bought a 4 gig/8 gig backup... and we fill that after a week :(
>
> > everything. Since the removable drive tray/rack system lock shuts power
> > down to the drive before removal, I thought that using umount and
> > possibly setting the kernel not to probe that device might work, but
> > disk corruption occurred. A more sophisticated controller or "cut-off"
> > circuitry seems necessary, although no one makes RAID controllers for
> > IDE. So, does anyone know how to do this?
>
> I've actually not heard of a raid controller like that. Closest NT has is
> software style, but hot swapping that is, as you could imagine,
> disasterous...
>
> If you really wanted to experiment, i would suggest getting 2 ZIP drives.
> I believe they come in IDE flavor :P
>
> jason
>
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