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emjay@execpc.com (Tom Kustner) wrote:

>I see that ADIC is running an offer for existing ARCserve users, where
>you can get the above-mentioned Autochanger and an upgrade to ARCserve
>6 and the ARCserve 6 autoloader option (which i$ an extra option with
>ARCserve 6) for $5000.

>Has anyone used the ADIC 1200 with ARCserve with success?  Which tape
>drive did you use with it?

At a previous site we had a 1200D running with ArcServe 5.01g.  I was
quite pleased with it's performance, except for one teensy problem:  

Every rare now & then, it would jam.  The robotic arm wouldn't pull
the tape all the way out of the drive.  When it jammed, it lost it's
connection to ArcServe, which had to be re-started before it would
reconnect.  When ArcServe was on the primary server this became an
administrative nightmare.  When we moved it over to a backup server it
became only a minor annoyance.

This happened about once, maybe twice a month.  You should know that
this was under VERY intensive usage.  The server had about 18Gb of
ACTIVE workspace to back up.  CAD users considered the backup tapes an
ideal solution for managing revisons.  Quite often, restore jobs were
actually queued up & waiting.  Tapes were shuffled almost Considering
the abuse it got, I'm surprised it didn't break down more often!

In an *ordinary* site, I feel it would work flawlessly.


Wallace Marks - LAN Administrator
National Vision Associates, LTD