alistair@minster.york.ac.uk (06/04/90)
We have recently bought a MaxStream tape streamer, manufactured by Archive.
I am very disppointed to find that the sotware does not allow the restoration
of single files, but only all the files backed up in a given session. This
has many disadvantages ("Oh rats! I've just deleted that file. Never mind,
I have a backup on tape I took on Tuesday - I wonder if any of the other
files I backed up then have changed. I'll want the more up-to-date (disc)
version." Yuk!) It also means that it had better work. If I want to check
that the complete backup I've just taken was okay, I will have to restore my
whole disc - what a shame if it gets covered with crap.
The MaxStream just connects through SCSI. Is there any other better software
around which could/should do better. Does anyone from Archive read this group
and care to comment? Incidently we chose this streamer partly because according
to the write-ups we saw, the software was better than most.
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