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- From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Colorado and Sytos - Round #2
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 16:10 EDT
- Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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- Well, I went back to the README file for Sytos, and guess what? I just
- wasn't patient enough :-) It takes 40 minutes to format a tape (DC2000)!
- I guess they do one byte per pass of the tape. Anyway, after the tape
- formatted, I backed up a partition which has 12.5M of data on it. It
- took about 6 min, and the compare afterward *said* the backup was good.
- I haven't actually tried a restore yet, though.
-
- Someone else mentioned that it "buzzed" his A: drive every time it accessed
- the tape. Mine buzzed the B: drive maybe 2-3 times, but generally not.
- This software does eat the machine, though. Now I know why they have
- unattended backup. The machine is unusable while the backup/format runs!
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- Gene Mangum
- Univ of Michigan Hospitals
-