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- From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
- Subject: Re: Tape Backups, Quarterback
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.215932.12353@sarah.albany.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York at Albany
- References: <BxIyHA.Fpy@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <69331@cup.portal.com> <calfor.721661749@news.ncsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:59:32 GMT
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- In article <calfor.721661749@news.ncsu.edu> calfor@ncsu.edu (Constantine A Lapasha) writes:
- >
- >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
- >
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-
- This technique will work with differential backups as well.
-
- Herb
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