Re: Software for HP C1533A

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From: Deutscher
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 21:58

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Kotzinger Josef (Maniac@site41.ping.at) wrote:
: Hi out there

: I have a HP C1533A with an AHA2940 PCI SCSI Controller.

: Now I'm looking for backup software. The problem is, I'm using DOS/Windows,  
: Win95, WinNT an finally WARP on the same machine. Till this point of time I  
: have not found any Software that can read tapes that have been written using  
: another operating system.

: At this time I'm using Sytos under WARP but what to do when my WARP Partiton  
: dies? It would be good to restore the partion using dos/windows for example.  
: Or NT?

: I hope, you can help.

I can't help with the DOS/Windoze part, but I understand that by now
most backup software solutions provide disaster recovery. Sytos premium 
does, according to their spec sheets, Nova back does, BackAgain/2 does, etc.
This may be something newer versions than yours do -- check the docs.

As I was told, even on OS/2 Warp each of these programmes has its own
proprietary data format, i.e. you can't interchange / restore data unless you
have the same software used to back it up. I would expect even less success
when using different programme loaders (DOS FAT), graphical operating
environments (Win 3.x), operating systemlets (Win '96 FAT/VFAT kludge), 
or even operating systems (UNIX/LINUX with a boat load of file systems,
NT FAT/HPFS/NTFS, Warp FAT/HPFS) with different file systems.

There are a few solutions (like BakupWiz, I believe) which claim portable
data formats between the supported platforms, and then there is the UNIX tape
archive utility tar, for which a GNU port exists -- gtar. This has been
ported to many platforms, including OS/2, and I understand that the data
format *is* portable and readable as long as you use tar.

So.  Does that help?    Stefan



: Joe

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