Re: DV386 Settings for using a Colorado 250???

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From: Brandon S. Allbery
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:34

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joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
> 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.

Well, no; a program could still change a file out from under the backup by
sneaking in while the backup program was reading the disk.  Unless you mean
"read a file completely into memory, turn off disk access, then write it to
tape", which would cause major problems for large files.

++Brandon

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