Re: [WinMac] Snap servers for Macs & PC's
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Snap servers for Macs & PC's
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 22:01:12 EDT
With the investment you already have in the AppleShare server and the
low cost of hard drives, I would think that the least expensive option
would probably be to add some more hard disk space to the AppleShare
server.
> Rick Kent wrote:
>
> Has anyone had any experience with the Snap server or their equivalent?
> We have a small network of about 10 Macs and 5 PCs, supported by a G3
> B&W tower running AppleShare 6.3.
>
> We only use the server as a file server, providing a single volume to
> the entire company over a 100 Base T Ethernet network. It also has
> Retrospect running on it, with an Ecrix tape drive attached, and
> backs up the whole network as well as the server at night.
>
> Besides the fact that I would have to run the backup from another Mac
> on the network, would we be giving up anything / gaining anything by
> changing to such a dedicated server device. The question has come up
> because we are going to have to increase the size of our server's
> drive, and I thought this might be a good time to look into it.
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