14 Jan
2008
14 Jan
'08
6:40 p.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Fortunately the 4mm drive seems to be OK - I wrote a
backup tape
Have you managed to restore one yet :-)
My experience of DAT is that after a (short) while they start
to chew tapes. Never had that with DLT: the drive may
break but the tape (for me at least) remains intact.
Mind you, I have working RD53s and TK50s so there may be something
in the water here :-)
The good news is that BACKUP/IMAGE from one SCSI drive
to
another worked fine
That's by design rather than luck ... BACKUP/IMAGE is supposed
to do that. If you BACKUP/IMAGE to a saveset instead, then
you'll have a single file that you can FTP somewhere else
for archiving.
Given that 18GB SCSI disks are cheap (== free, usually) and
readily available, I would hook one of those up, initialise it,
create a saveset on that and then FTP over to a nearby PC for
archiving to CD or DVD as appropriate. I've not tried 9GB or
18GB disks in a VLC, but I have three 18GB IBM SCA80 disks in
my VS 4000-90.
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org
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