Re: Windows 95 Backup Software

Article View: comp.arch.storage

Article #299

#299

From: James Gerber
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 14:18

31 lines
2012 bytes

chuckh@ix.netcom.com (Chuck Hamilton) wrote:


>What exactly is ASPI? Is this something new to Win95?

ASPI is a standard for SCSI drivers invented by Adaptec.  It has nothing to do
with Windows 95.



>I want to upgrade to Win95 but am a bit afraid of not being able to
>recover from a disaster. From what I gather by reading this group,
>Win95 provides a tape backup utility that'll work with my IOMEGA 250
>that runs off of the floppy controller. What I want to know though is
>what about restoring? If I can't boot the system, can I load a
>compatible restore utility from diskette?

Get a better backup prog.  The built in one is garbage and has bugs that
prevent an emergency restore from working correctly.  If you have a Pentium 90
or better it will run at a decent speed ... 

--
                                               '''
                                               (o o)
 ------------------------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo----------
| James Gerber                                                    |
| CIGNA Corporation                                               |
| 401 White Horse Road     E-mail: jgerber@omni.voicenet.com      |
| Voorhees, NJ 08043                  Phone: 609.346.5888         |
| USA                                 FAX:   609.346.5106         |
 -----------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <42piua$29q@news.voicenet.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.voicenet.com!news

References:

<decastroDDJ0u5.9L8@netcom.com> <DDM2BE.G75@mv.mv.com> <41ghai$2d9e@news.gate.net> <DDsvry.FMJ@mv.mv.com> <decastroDDttpx.2MJ@netcom.com> <422mha$e5n@cdn_mail.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> <42ks6j$eve@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.voicenet.com!news
From: jgerber@omni.voicenet.com (James Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 95 Backup Software
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 14:18:50 GMT
Organization: CIGNA
Message-ID: <42piua$29q@news.voicenet.com>
References: <decastroDDJ0u5.9L8@netcom.com> <DDM2BE.G75@mv.mv.com> <41ghai$2d9e@news.gate.net> <DDsvry.FMJ@mv.mv.com> <decastroDDttpx.2MJ@netcom.com> <422mha$e5n@cdn_mail.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> <42ks6j$eve@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cherryhill05.voicenet.com
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99a.107

Reply to Parent Message