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kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>gdal@gdalsrv.sas.upenn.edu (GDAL Manager) writes:
>> In article <1993Jan04.174011.28583@qdeck.com> burge@qdeck.com (Bill Burge) wr
>> >If (and only if) you are using the Colorado from the floppy controller,
>> >you cab start DV with the parameter /hw:E:L; and the tape may have some
>> >success of running inside of DV386.
>> 

>As any Unix or other multiuser system administrator can tell you:  running a
>backup of a live system is just BEGGING for an unreadable backup.  After
>all, how is the tape drive to deal with a file that gets wchanged while
>it's writing it?  --- and if the backup program locks the file (which most
>of them do not!) then files end up being locked for rather long periods of
>time, tape drives being slow beasts at best.

With the above caveats about live backup firmly in mind, you can try turning
simultaneous tape/disk activity OFF.  Unfortunately, I think you will find
that your tape backup will slow to miserably unacceptable speeds.

-JTT