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In message <3prp5v$6mk_002@wulfman.icsi.net> - wulfman@icsi.net (Wulfman) write
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>In article <2fc0cb24.4d495354494b@mistik.express.net>,
>   os2-l@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>>About a week ago, I mentioned that I was going to give SYTOS premium a
>>try since Indelible Blue had it on sale.  Well, I did.
>>
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>I've been using SP for about 3 mths. and love it.  I've been thru 
>BackMaster, NovaBack, BackupWiz, and ARC Solo.  SP is the only one that 
>has given me clean, consistant performance and reliability.

Glad it works for some people.  I tried it recently, with high hopes, and 
found that it ran nicely for one day.  Then the next Monday it started 
telling me the tape drive wasn't connected, and doing that consistently.  
After a while and a couple of reboots, it connected, and I started formatting 
a tape (BTW I can't figure why the Prepare A Tape operation won't offer to 
format it for you), and the program grabbed its huge piece of screen real 
estate and wouldn't let go.  Wouldn't minimize, couldn't be killed by 
non-drastic procedures.  Funny behavior for a multi-tasked program.  As I 
recall, I had to make the new tape because the attempts to stack an 
incremental dump after my successful full dump left the tape in an 
unrecoverable condition that wouldn't accept more dumps.  Experience with 5 
or 6 OS/2 backup programs, and many years of other utilities, has taught 
me not to waste my time trying to make a new program work when it behaves 
like this at first.

(Adaptec VESA SCSI board driving HP 35740A and 1 Gb Quantum drive.)

I'm now back on an ancient text-mode version of Novaback.  I can do other 
things while formatting on Nback; and once it claims to have written a tape 
without error, it always manages to read the tape when I need it.  More and 
more, I appreciate these unusual features in a backup program.

Dan Drake                   I'm not the NRA.
dandrake@nbn.com               --George Bush