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- From: bash@tware.com (Paul Bash)
- Subject: Don't trust GTAK! (was: Re: gtak with Future Domain)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.065916.578@tware.com>
- Organization: Techware Design, Boulder, Colorado
- References: <725780031.AA07511@csource.oz.au> <C03nu7.47M@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:59:16 GMT
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- In article <C03nu7.47M@NeoSoft.com> tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart) writes:
- >Keywords
- >
- >Having installed gtak 201 binaries on a friend's machined with
- >a Future Domain 950 and Wangtek 6130 (?), I have some questions.
- >Doing a 'tar cp .' seems to chunk away nicley, with only an error
- >message about not being able to back up swapper.dat. Fine. Reading
- >with 'tar tpv' gives several errors about unrecognized file type and
- >it stops part way thru the archive.
-
- It sounds like you and I are having similar problems (although I'm
- using an Adaptec 1542B and an Archive 2150s). In my case, the
- initial backup ran fine but attempts to restore the tape result in I/O
- errors on the first few files, then GTAK appears to hang (though the
- drive sounds like it continues to move in very short start/stop bursts).
- The tape itself is fine as I was successfully able to read it under
- Unix using GNU tar. GTAK just can't read back the tape archive it created
- on the same machine!
-
- The _real_ problem I have is that my tar tape is a backup of my entire
- system prior to replacing my system disk with a larger one. Now, I'm
- stuck with a largely empty 500MB disk and a full 150MB tape I can't
- restore! AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
-
- Somehow, a backup utility that can't restore its own backups seems worse
- than useless. I'm not yet sure how I'm going to recover from this one,
- but the first thing I buy when I do will be a commercial backup/restore
- utility that hopefully has been tested.
-
- In case anyone is interested the backup was done with
-
- tar cp .
-
- and the restore was attempted with
-
- tar xp
-
- (nothing tricky there, right? :-). I even made two completed backups just
- in case a tape turned up defective.
-
- Also, GTAK was installed exactly as per the instructions. That is, my
- Archive 2150s was already set for SCSI target 2 so I just copied the
- config.sys examples directly from the GTAK doc. The hardware
- itself has worked for a couple of years under MSDOS and OS/2 1.x using
- Sytos, so I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware problem. Particularly
- since I can read the tar archive on my Unix machine.
-
- The moral of this story is don't trust GTAK any farther than you can
- throw my, for all intents and purposes, useless OS/2 machine.
-
- --
- Paul Bash Techware Design
- bash@tware.com Boulder, CO U.S.A.
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