On Wed, 20 May 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> Hallo, > > I would like to hear whether there is somebody using the Iomega-ditto 2Gb > tape drive for reliable backups. > > I have tried out tbackup, but the documentation says it is not supposed to > handle a lot of files - 30 000 if I remember correctly and it became very > slow. Also, I could not restore some files using it. > > I could not get tob to use the tape correctly and I could never restore > files backed up with tob. > > At the moment I am using dump and restore. It is working but not very > well. The restore process can go on for a very long time even if you want > to restore only one file or one directory and it has happened that I could > not restore a file seemingly because of errors on the tape. > > Are reliable backups possible? > > Johann How did you get this to work at all? Last time I looked around on the web (1.5 weeks ago) all I could find was a page that said that Ditto units were not supported and that driver development was in foetal stage. I'm really curious, because if it works, I'll bring back my just-aquired iomega zip drive and buy the ditto that I can get even cheaper than the zip drive. Cheers, Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
