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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?
> 
> We are currently using ARCserve 4.02 with a Compaq DAT drive.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Kustner                   Emjay Corporation
> System/LAN Administrator      725 W. Glendale Ave.
> Email: emjay@execpc.com       Glendale, WI  53209-6509  USA
> Phone: (414) 961-0650
> Fax #: (414) 961-1649         Any opinions are mine and not Emjay's.

We used two ADIC 1200's for 3 years with HP drives and arcserve 4.02 on netware 3.11.  The 
last six months of their use were filled with problems relating to the drive heads wearing 
out, scsi bus and software initialization problems.  I have since replaced with Quantum DLT 
drives with Arcserve 6.0 on netware 4.1.  (Incidentally, we purchased and serviced the 
drives through TSR in Mequon.)  After three years of heavy usage, I can understand the heads 
wearing out.  Perhaps the new version of Arcserve would solve the other problems, I have yet 
to test the old drives on the new software.  If you go ahead with Arcserve 6.0 in any 
configuration, make sure you download the latest arcserve patches that fix a variety of 
problems, some specifically related to tape changers.

--Kurt
kevans@excel.net

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