What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version 3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up a special boot disk for it. I am also using Taper. I have found it to be easy and effective to use.
Alex On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I have been using an internal Iomega Ditto 2G tape for some time now to > make backups - both in Dos and in Linux. > > In Dos, it works wonderfully well and efficient. However, as soon as you > want to verify or restore backups made using Linux frustration starts: > > A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore > from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a > few hours without restoring a single file from the selection I made and in > the end gave up with a hardware error notice. > > I then got hold of a new tape, made a backup using tob. I cannot get tob > to read back from a backup made by tob so I used afio to verify the > backup. It has been running now for about 12 hours and did not finish the > job yet. There is about 1 gig data on the tape compressed to about > 560meg. This is just not acceptable. When done in Dos it takes about 3 > hours to backup and verify 600 meg of data. > > Is there hope for a reliable backup and restore program in Linux? I have > tried tob, tbackup, dump and restore and no one so far could give me the > impression that the system is reliable. > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
