Yes, they have them, but unfortunately, few work and even those only work
under special circumstances. If you've tried to use a decent sized SCSI
device (>100GB) such as a multi-tape 8mm library, you'll quickly see that
none of the major software packages work. They do fine with the little
bitty <=8Gb (floppy tape) thingies, but won't work with a serious user's
device.
Novaback, Cheyenne, various versions of Arcada/now-Seagate-Backup or Backup
exec, and a few others as well, work OK on small devices but I've yet to see
one of them even work with a single 8mm tape (10-15 GB capacity), let alone
a serious backup device. One of them freezes up in all but two of the
systems at the local Post Office BMC, (180 systems) another backs up OK but
refuses to read its own writing so it can't restore. Another has nice GUI
stuff, but won't read or write a tape. Another can't tell it just finished
reformatting a tape that it insisted on formatting because it was
unrecognizable.
The old DOS-based stuff was MUCH better. I still use the stuff when I can.
Unfortunately, it requires one run LFNBACK and then the drive is useless
until it's undone, so backgrounding the backups is not possible.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: D'oh! Backup issue solved
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: D'oh! Backup issue solved
>
>
> >It's too bad there's so little functional provision for backups under
> the
> >currently popular OS'.
> >
> >Dick
>
>
> ???! Last I checked all of MSPOOGE dos/win3x/win9x/nt has a
> backup, as do linux and freebsd. Which ones are you referring too?
>
> Allison
>
>
>
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 18:27:49 BST