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- From: calfor@ncsu.edu (Constantine A Lapasha)
- Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
- Message-ID: <calfor.721661749@news.ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <BxIyHA.Fpy@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <69331@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:35:49 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com writes:
-
- >I just got an Archive 2525s this week. I had the hardest time getting it to
- >work at first ( the connector on the drive was backwards), but it now works
- >perfect. If you use Quarterback or Amiback, you don't need any other utility
- >to get it recognized by your SCSI controller. I just boot my machine, go into
- >Quarterback, set the tape device to the right SCSI # and off I go. I just sent
- >for Amiback today which is superior to Quarterback with tape backups. It allow
- >for multible backups and differential backups on the same tape which QB does
- >not allow. I should get it tomorrow or Friday. Leave me E-mail if you want
- >more info or my test results with Amiback.
-
- Hmm... seems that I've been doing multiple backups to tape using QB for some
- time now. I normally do full backups, so I have little hands on experience
- with differential backups using this setup. The only problem I've had is
- trying to convince QB to skip to the proper backup session on the tape
- when restoring. I finally found that the following sequence worked fairly
- well:
- insert tape,
- request restore - so QB reads the session log off tape
- skip to next part of tape
- request restore - so QB reads the session log
- ...
- etc..
- I found that if I didn't have it read the log off tape for each session,
- that I cound not get it to skip to the proper session properly (say the
- forth backup session on the tape)
-
- this is on an A2500 + cbm tape drive -- checked w/ 2.04 and later
-
- anybody else have these problems - any more elegant fixes?
-
- Kostya
-
- calfor@unity.ncsu.edu
- paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
-
-