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- From: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Backup HW ?
- Keywords: Touchdown 100 Backup
- Message-ID: <52218@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:27:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.084421.15202@ousrvr.oulu.fi> <1992Aug20.211223.9525@leela.cs.orst.edu>
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- Reply-To: barrett@gleep.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
- Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED
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- In article <1992Aug20.211223.9525@leela.cs.orst.edu> ridgwad@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Ridgway) writes:
- >I've heard good things about Ami-Back but haven't tried it yet. BTW the
- >company that markets Ami-Back (moonlighter?) I have been told also has some
- >kind of drive/software combo that you can buy. I recall something like it
- >was a refurbished Archive 2150 viper plus Ami-Back for $475 US.
-
- I paid $350 for mine from Moonlighter. It came with Ami-Back 1.05,
- and 2.0 is now out, so perhaps the price has changed. It works fine for me
- and several other people I know. Moonlighter is (407) 384-9484.
-
- A3000T owners should be aware that the Viper cannot fit in the
- A3000T's vertical drive bay -- you must use it in the horizontal bay.
- Interested people can contact me to find out why.
-
- [Speaking about the Quarterback + Caliper drive bundle]
- >Like I stated, I know next to nothing about tape drives in general and I've
- >only had mine a couple of weeks, but so far I'm fairly satisfied. There are
- >some minor annoyances which either come from tape drives in general or my
- >Supra interface. If you are doing a tape operation such as fast forward
- >or rewind, you can't get to any other devices on the SCSI bus until that
- >operation is finished.
-
- That's terrible! And certainly doesn't happen with my setup (A3000T
- with Ami-Back 2.0e). I can access the hard drive during any tape operations.
-
- >Also the way that QuarterBack handles multiple archives
- >on a single tape is in my opinion kind of kludgy and could be MUCH better.
- >Example: If you want to get to the third archive on a tape, with Quarterback
- >you have to read in the first backup catalog, fast forward past it, cancel
- >the restore, read in the second backup catalog, fast forward past it, cancel
- >the restore, etc.
-
- Ami-Back 2.0e searches from archive to archive, prompting you
- (Yes/No) whether it should restore the current one. If not, it searches
- to the next one. This is not the best method, but it's pretty painless.
-
- Dan
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