Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

[Chuck Hornish]

SK Suh wrote:
> 
> At 8:35 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote:
> >I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the
> >data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the
> >tapes? Are these tapes archives or backups?
> 
> We would hopefully be keeping old catalogs and 60/90 metre tapes, as
> they're completed (archived) jobs from years gone by.
> 
> There's no need to write to the ancient 60 metre tapes, but being
> able to write to the 90 metre tapes would be an asset.

We have a Sony DDS-4 which can write to 90-meter tapes, but not the
60-meter variety. The backup speed is nothing short of phenominal. It is
best to use the 150-meter DDS-4 tapes which give a 40GB capacity. Highly
recommend this drive.

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Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

[SK Suh]

At 8:35 PM -0800 03/06/2000, Chuck Hornish wrote:
>I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the
>data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the
>tapes? Are these tapes archives or backups?

We would hopefully be keeping old catalogs and 60/90 metre tapes, as 
they're completed (archived) jobs from years gone by.

There's no need to write to the ancient 60 metre tapes, but being 
able to write to the 90 metre tapes would be an asset.

Stephen K. Suh


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Re: DDS-3 or DDS-4?

[Chuck Hornish]

SK Suh wrote:
> 
> Am shopping for a DAT drive replacement for our aging Dynatek DDS-1
> (or -2?) unit for archival use. This DAT would be attached to an
> older beige Power Macintosh G3 and would be writing data from a local
> hard drive, not over the network.
> 
> Ideally I'd like to be able to utilize newer, faster and
> higher-capacity media while retaining backwards read/write capability
> with our massive library of 60 and 90 metre DAT media.
> 
> Would DDS-4 be worthwhile despite the price, higher media costs and
> limited backwards compatibility, especially given its improved
> performance? Otherwise, would it make more sense to consider a proven
> DDS-3 solution?

DDS-4. I'd suggest getting rid of the 60-Meter tapes and re-writing the
data onto longer tapes. Are you keeping the catalogs as well as the
tapes? Are these tapes archives or backups?

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DDS-3 or DDS-4?

[SK Suh]

Am shopping for a DAT drive replacement for our aging Dynatek DDS-1 
(or -2?) unit for archival use. This DAT would be attached to an 
older beige Power Macintosh G3 and would be writing data from a local 
hard drive, not over the network.

Ideally I'd like to be able to utilize newer, faster and 
higher-capacity media while retaining backwards read/write capability 
with our massive library of 60 and 90 metre DAT media.

Would DDS-4 be worthwhile despite the price, higher media costs and 
limited backwards compatibility, especially given its improved 
performance? Otherwise, would it make more sense to consider a proven 
DDS-3 solution?

Stephen K. Suh

Network R&D + Admin Tel 613/228-0250
Studio Colour Group Fax 613/228-0254
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Re: VXA?

[Brian L. Matthews]

Thanks for all the comments on VXA, it really sounds like the way to go, so
I'm going to be getting one when I get my new G4.

Thanks again,
Brian




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Re: Unix?

[Jon Gardner]

on 3/5/2000 10:19 AM, Moe Rubenzahl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I need to set up tape backup for a web site which runs on four Sun
> Solaris Unix boxes and one NT machine. Unfortunately, it does not
> look like Retrospect can do the job. Anyone have experience with
> other solutions or have any suggestions?

Run Samba on the UNIX boxes to provide SMB filesharing. You can then mount
the shared drives on the NT box (if that's your backup platform) or buy DAVE
for the Mac OS and use that to mount the UNIX and NT drives on the Mac in
order to back them up using Retrospect.

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Texas A&M University Dept. of Food Services 
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Yamaha CRW6416/CRW4416 firmware

[Matthew Tevenan]

Hello all,

Most of you probably know about the recent ongoing problems with Yamaha
CRW6416 and CRW4416 CD-RW drives. The bug will cause the drive to
intermittently return error 100 or ­100 (device rejected command) when used
with Retrospect or Retrospect Express on slower Macintosh and PC models. We
are pleased to report that these problems have been fixed with the latest
version of Yamaha¹s firmware for each drive.

If you have not yet been personally notified of this solution via e-mail,
please send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be sent the updated
firmware. You will also need to download a "flasher" utility from Yamaha's
website. All details will be included in a letter accompanying the firmware
update. 

Yamaha is still working on fixing the firmware. However, they have agreed to
allow Dantz to distribute a beta firmware version to its customers reporting
problems. Dantz has tested this beta firmware and found that it fixes the
error 100 problems.

Please keep in mind that this is beta firmware and Dantz cannot accept
responsibility for any unforeseen problems.

When Yamaha has posted the official firmware release, we will notify the
list with the appropriate URL.

If you have any trouble using the firmware update or questions about it,
please contact Yamaha at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If you have problems with Retrospect after applying the firmware update or
have any other Retrospect questions, please contact Dantz Technical Support
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Regards,

Matthew Tevenan
Technical Support Specialist
Dantz Development Corporation
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Solution ->[SOT?] Retrospect causing ASIP crash?

[Craig Gaevert]

Well, I got around to investigating my problems with this machine this weekend.  It 
turned out to be either a bad sector or just corrupt files.  While making a backup 
copy of the files, the machine continued to seize whenever it hit on of the corrupt 
files (endless restarts), but once all were copied, a reformat of the drive and 
reinstallation
of the data has resulted in a functional machine and smooth backup.  Thanks to all who 
offered suggestions.

Serge Paulus wrote:

> I have the same problem on a similar config; I have no correct backup of my CMD 105 
>gb Raid drive: the ASIP/retrospect server running on a 8600/250/ w/ G3 Newertech card 
>freezes after a few files are backed up... However there is no "hard freeze"; the 
>asip server simply doesn't respond but the mouse/keybord is active. The asip version 
>is 6.1.
> Another element: I have exactly the same configuration running another ASIP server 
>that has no problem doing incremental backups every day.
> --
> Serge Paulus
>
> On jeudi 10 février 2000, Craig Gaevert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >snip>.  But ever since this time trying to
> >back up the server with Retro from my desktop machine causes the ASIP
> >server to freeze hard.  By freeze hard I mean that it will cause the
> >server to drop into MacsBug but MacsBug will not write a StdLog file.

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Re: VXA

[Garret J. Cleversley]

I have been so happy with not only the drive itself but the company, tech
support etc.. That I became a reseller for VXA Drives.

I use two drives myself to back up Graphic files over the network for 30
workstations. Mostly Mac but some PC's win95/98. I get about 38 gig on a
tape which isn't too bad since graphics files are not really compressible.

I get about 180 megs/minute transfer rate and have done several restores. I
replaced a Sony DDS-3 because I was tired of having to use 2-3 tapes for a
nightly backup. This has made it much easier for me.

like I said I was so happy with the drive I now sell them.

Garret


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> From: Carolyn James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
> Reply-To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:57:17 -0700
> To: retro-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: VXA
> 
> Hi,
> Yes, I've been using Ecrix's VXA drive with my mac for about a month. I
> love using it. It beats the 4mm tapes and swapping them out all of the
> time. I've done a small restore over the network to try it out and it
> seems to work well. You can't beat the price for the volume.
> Carolyn James
> 
> Professional Research Assistant
> Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
> University of Colorado
> Campus Box 390
> Boulder, CO 80309-0390
> Tel: 303-492-8760
> Fax: 303-492-0642
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Re: VXA

[Carolyn James]

Hi,
Yes, I've been using Ecrix's VXA drive with my mac for about a month. I
love using it. It beats the 4mm tapes and swapping them out all of the
time. I've done a small restore over the network to try it out and it
seems to work well. You can't beat the price for the volume.
Carolyn James

Professional Research Assistant
Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
University of Colorado
Campus Box 390
Boulder, CO 80309-0390
Tel: 303-492-8760
Fax: 303-492-0642
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Re: vxa

[Gene Kubicki]

I have had a VXA drive here for about 3 months. Aside from some long
seek (finding the beginning of the tape) times if you crash Retrospect
in the middle of a backup and the fact that it is noisy compared to the
DDS3 drive I was using, It is very fast (~30% faster than DDS3) and
reliable (several complete restores).




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