f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward) (06/13/89)
I am currently using Galaxy tape backup software and have been completely unsatisfied with it. It seems everything appears to work fine until you really need to restore one of those files you were so careful to back up. Invariably, if you REALLY lost a file, or wanted to bring some source back to work on from tape, the tape software says the tape is blank, or it's incompatiable, or any number of things! Burns my bisquits, you know? Now we have tested it over and over, the machine is always cold booted before backup and restore, but we have YET to restore anything other than in a test. What I want from you folks is a consensus on the best tape backup software out there for Novell. I mean catastrophic disk failure isn't out of the questio, now is it.... :-( ? So, who uses what and how well does it work? Thanks in advance... James E. Ward f0057@uafhp.uucp
tim@j.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) (06/13/89)
I too have found tape backups unreliable, I have tried Irwin and Mountain. The Irwin tape became unreadable after about a dozen uses, the Mountain could not verify a backup tape, tried three tapes. A columnist in PC Week Diane Danelle (sp?) also complained about backup tapes. She says she uses floppy disk backup for important stuff. I use Fastback for my four networks to backup programs and user files. To backup the bindery and trustee rights I use Larchive. I can usually run both at the same time on two workstations. -- Tim Lange. Purdue U. Computing Center/MATH Bldg./W. Lafayette, IN 47907/317-494-1787 Arpanet=tim@j.cc.purdue.edu/CIS=75410,525/Bitnet=TIM@PURCCVM/Fidonet=1:201/30