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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!jpr
- From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
- Subject: Re: Ctar
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:26:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.162600.22914@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <42@fleet.UUCP>
- Lines: 27
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- In article <42@fleet.UUCP> mel@fleet.UUCP (mel) writes:
- >What experiences have you had with the commercial backup utility
- >called "Ctar"? I'd like to use it with a SCSI HP Dat drive on either SCO Unix or
- >SCO Xenix. Is it really as easy as they advertise to recover from a crash?
- >Is the SCO Xenix binary of "Ctar" interchangeable with the Unix binary?
- >i.e. If/when I upgrade(?) to SCO Unix will I need to buy a different unix
- >version of Ctar or will I be able to use the Xenix version.
- >
- >Mel Shear
- >!rex!fleet!mel
- >
-
- My experiences have been excellent.
-
- The crash-recovery works if and only if you have a tape drive which does
- NOT run off the floppy-disk controller, since you need to be booted off a
- floppy and be able to read in from the tape too.
-
- But it works very well indeed in the case of a crash, in the case that you
- want to add a hard drive or otherwise change your partition set-up, or if
- you just want to unfragment your existing partitions.
-
- The current release of CTAR installs on all but the very earliest releases
- of Xenix/286, Xenix/386, Unix, ODT, and MPX.
-
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- Jean-Pierre Radley Unix in NYC jpr@jpr.com jpradley!jpr CIS: 72160,1341
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