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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
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- Subject: Re: Has QB5 been fixed yet ??????
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- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:01:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.043639.3885@pixel.kodak.com>, jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
- >skank@iastate.edu (George L Skank) writes:
- >: QB 5.02 seems to work quite well. I haven't tried to restore a file
- >: yet, too busy. 5.01 was so buggy it was unuseable, 5.02 worked just fine,
- >: never crashed, never glitched, while I was backing up files. I have no reason
- >: to suspect that it doesn't work.
- >
- >I would test those backups before relying on them if I were you. Even with
- >5.02, I still have yet to successfully back up and restore anything more
- >significant than trivial tests. I wasn't able to get all the way through
- >making a backup tape until 5.0.2; now the backup process appears to run
- >smoothly, but I've had no luck reading a tape. Depending on the settings
- >I use for buffer size and async I/O, I get one or more of:
- >
- >- spurious retries reading the index
- >- block read failures at random places
- >- various gurus, typically 80000004 and 8000000B.
- >
- >All of this on hardware (A3070 tape drive and HardFrame controller) that
- >works flawlessly with any of the free tape handlers and tar utilities.
- >
- >And I'm not even trying to do a restore, just a test or a compare.
-
- Just this past weekend, I had to backup over 68Meg when my main Work:
- partition on my A3000 got trashed. QB 5.02 backed it up to an A3070,
- and restored it all flawlessly...
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