🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <42gpf9$d0_003@dialin.csus.edu>,
Ping W Kwong <sac59485@saclink.csus.edu> wrote:
>In article <426sgg$vhb@mindy.vnet.net>, rivey@vnet.net (Ray Ivey) wrote:
>
>> I searched for several days and did find a company that has a WIN95
>>backup system.  Their name is NovaStore, and the product is NovaBack
>>for WIN95.  DON'T BUY IT.   It cost $150 + S&H, which I jumped into.
>>It took 3 hours to backup and verify 400MB using a WangDAT 4mm DAT
>>tape, that use to take 17 minutes under DOS.
>
>I can't vouch for their software either.  I've been having problems with
>their DOS and Windows 95 products.  I have an Exabyte 8500 which performs
>just fine (Did about 1.3G in an hour) but when I tried to append another
>volume, it couldn't find the end of the first volume.  Anyone else with
>an Exabyte 8500 have this problem?  I have a friend with the same tape
>backup and he's had the same problem with their DOS product.  He hasn't
>tried their Windows 95 version yet.  Seems rather strange that it has
>limited capabilities.  I've had no problems using backup software on any
>other SCSI tape software.


From what I have seen, this seems to be a common issue with Novaback -
not being able to append additional volumes.

I believe there was some degree of discussion of this issue here a while
ago.



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Phil Koenig                 Computers & Communications           pjk@netcom.com