Tape drives are pain in the butt... (but not as much as printers!) Its a pity
that technology hasnt improved much... maybe dvdr is better... i dunno, as I
dont have one :(
have they considered changing their backup scheme (like doing full backup
once a week to tape, and incremental backup to disk?)
Jamie
On Saturday 31 August 2002 12:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:56:50AM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
: > I was one of those people that worked on that backup. It took a couple
: > of trips to figure out how TapeWare worked. I'm pretty sure I could get
: > the timed backup to work in 1 or 2 more trips out there.
: >
: > The problem is TapeWare expects a specific tape on a specific day of the
: > rotation. If you get the wrong tape, the backup fails and you won't get a
: > backup until the error prompt is dealt with and the correct tape is
: > inserted. Wrong tape? Too bad.
:
: Yeah, I've seen this before. It's why I replaced ArcServe with BackupExec
: on my Netware boxen.
:
: So, why don't they replace this with some good backup software?
: Considering the function of the software, I think I'd get something that
: did the job, rather than stick with the stuff that shipped with the drive.
:
: Personally, I've quit doing those types of automated rotation schemes.
: Setting up backup jobs manually *always* works, and as far as I'm
: concerned, making sure I've got working backup is the single most important
: function of my job.
:
: Cheers,
: Dennis
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