Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
Oops! That last paragraph was wrong. What I meant to say was...
>The reason it takes so long? My guess is that Retrospect is waiting
until
>the command that it sent to the tape drive (to REWIND) has completed
>before freeing up the machine for other tasks.
Sorry folks,
Matthew Tevenan
Technical Support Specialist
Dantz Development Corporation
925.253.3050
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Matthew Tevenan wrote:
> Reply to: RE: during retrospect rewind the tape...
>Lionel,
>
>Retrospect will now always rewind your tape when you quit the
application
>to (among other reasons) prevent problems writing an end of data marker.
>We were finding that with certain tape drives, if you told Retrospect
(in
>earlier versions you could do this) not to rewind your tape on quit, it
>would not properly write an end of data marker, which would make it
>impossible to append data to the end of the tape.
>
>The reason it takes so long? My guess is that Retrospect is waiting
until
>the command that it sent to the tape drive (to erase) has completed
>before freeing up the machine for other tasks.
>
>Matthew Tevenan
>Technical Support Specialist
>Dantz Development Corporation
>925.253.3050
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Lionel OSTROWSKI wrote:
>>When I quit retrospect, retrospect rewind the tape of my DAT backup
>system..
>>
>>During this process, about 30-60 seconds, retrospect keep all mac
>>processor time and does'nt permit to clic behind, even the finder...
>>!??
>>
>> I think that's a nice feature well thinking by Dantz, but I
>>don't see the raison..
>> Could you explain me the utilities of such feature ?
>>
>>Many thanks :-)
>>
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