on 4/13/00 10:28 PM, SK Suh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Exactly how is one supposed to determine (or guess) whether their
> tape drive offers hardware compression?
>
> In my case, I'll be using a SkyData (Toronto, ON) DDS-4 DAT drive.
You did read the spec's before you purchased it didn't you?
> >Retrospect is supposed to disable software compression in the presence
> >of hardware compression, even if it the box is checked. I will test and
> >see if speed increases without it.
>
>I had the same (mis)understanding. I'm curious about what you found.
Exactly how is one supposed to d
In a message dated 4/2/00 9:54:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Curiously,
>Retrospect is supposed to disable software compression in the presence
>of hardware compression, even if it the box is checked. I will test and
>see if speed increases without it.
I had the same (mis)understanding.
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>If I may make one suggestion:
>
>Just to give yourself peace of mind, it's a good thing to do a "test
>nuke". If you can, remove your working mirror disks from the server a
Our nonprofit company has just purchased Retrospect for Workgroups to backup
our Filemaker Pro databases, financial data, and the companies computers. I
know that in order to backup the database it must first be shut down and I
read about the suggested AppleScript in the manual that is supposed t
Jerry,
We back up 3 appleshare and 2 NT servers with one of our Retrospect
servers. Everything works flawlessly. Make sure you back up using the
retrospect client and not by remotely mounting Applshare volumes (you
don't backup the privileges with the latter).
I (and many others on the list