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macshome wrote:

The main limitation is going to be the bus speed on the G4 here. A 400 MHz machine is probably a PCI-G4. In this case some people get more performance by putting their highest demand expansion card in the graphics slot as it is 66Mhz instead of 33.

If performance is an issue you can get a faster G4 for not much cheese later on.

Just curious, but why won’t the W2K3 box let you do a backup?

I have installed a 1Gigabit ehternet card in the mac. So i’m going to try and see how it performs. Else I’m willing to upgrade it to a G5 later on.

The problem with the windows box is the following:

· When I plug in a brand new Maxtor 300 GB external HHD, format it, and start backing up using the backup program that comes with Windows, the computer freaks out! The fans starts running at full speed, and it says it takes 14 days to copy 200 GB of data. I’ve tried leaving it alone for a day, but the time remaining just increases.Last ttime i tried it was around 30 days! I have also tried mounting a network drive attached to the G4 server, and backing up to that, still via windows back up program. It worked fine for the first 10 GB or so, but then it came up withe some error code, and stopped.

The problem is I don’t know very much about windows. I know a little more about mac, so I thought it’d be nice to run the server in a complete mac environment.

I’m planning to use SuperDuper to backup the data daily.

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