newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton) (10/09/87)
If anyone responds to the earlier request for info on the tape
drive advertized in APDA-LOG, could they please also specify
whether the drive is compatible w/ other systems?
When A/UX eventually comes out, I'd like to transfer a fair
amount of software (like GNU CC and SB-Prolog) from our Suns
to the Mac. If the Mac and Sun cartridge tape drives
were the same format, it would make it a LOT easier.
- mike
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I'm never biased...anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) (08/04/89)
This is posted for a colleague. You can respond here, to me, or to the person (s_bertsche-rd@udplato.bitnet) directly. Thanks. I am trying to select a tape backup unit for the Macintosh. I need the unti to: 1. Backup a 150M AppleShare server volume 2. Work with FastBack II software 3. Have reliable operation 4. Cost under $2000 (educational price) Suggestions (backed with experience) appreciated. -- Dave Anderer Academic Computing and Instructional Technology University of Delaware
werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (08/06/89)
In <4095@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU writes: > I am trying to select a tape backup unit for the Macintosh which does: > 1. Backup a 150M AppleShare server volume > 2. Work with FastBack II software > 3. Have reliable operation > 4. Cost under $2000 (educational price) the TEAC is sold by several companies which add a box and power- supply and some software for under $1k. you can also buy the mechanism for under $500 and stick it into a box yourself. There are several backup programs that work with the drive, FastBack, Retrospect, something from Nuvolabs and, probably, Redux. From my experiments, I'd prefer Retrospect over Fastback. -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP
mel@fleet.UUCP (mel) (08/08/89)
I have been using the new Archive 150 meg tape backup unit for several months. It has a list price of $2195 and backups at a rate of 5 to 6 megabytes per minute on my Mac II & IIx. It comes with it's own software or can be used with the very powerful archive program from Dantz software called "Retrospect". I have been using an Archive drive on my HP Vectra CPU running Xenix for the last year. It has behaved flawlessly in that time. I expect the same from their Mac unit. Mel Shear