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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: Which DAT Format to Adopt
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.193527.8260@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Organization: University of Houston
- References: <1992Aug28.125718.1@capd.jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:35:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.125718.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu
- writes:
- =>In article <1992Aug28.143605.20308@menudo.uh.edu>, sears@tree.egr.uh.edu
- =>(Paul S. Sears) writes:
- => [...stuff deleted...]
- => A recent issue of NeXTWORLD covered backups...devices and software.
- => The (soon-to-be) product they liked the best was (this is from
- => memory and may all be wrong) SafetyNet from Systemix? which, I think,
- => is Brian Cuthie's company (he has posted here in the past). It seemed
- => to have good network backup features and good archive features as
- well.
-
- I saw the article and it was pretty informative. I like the prospect of
- SafetyNet Pro, but it hasn't been released yet. Hopefully a demo will be put
- on the archives...
-
- One of my complaints about the article is that it didn't say if the "enhanced
- version of tar" used by SafetyNet is gnutar or if it is compatible with older
- tar formats. This is important because we backup other platforms and must
- retain compatibility....
-
- =>
- =>Opinions expressed are my own.
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