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John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <3vj5qq$flh@hobbes.crc.com> skc@hsv.crc.com "Sam Chow" writes:

>Talking of backup problems, I'm using a 16 meg ED RAM, 486 DX/4 100 and an
>Adapted VL bus SCSI card.

>GNU tar and cpio work fine under DOS, but if I do a big backup under NT,
>( big is about 1.75 gig ), it usually crashes NT back to a blue screen of
>death hex dump after doing a few hundred meg. I don't often see it get to
>the veryfy, but if it does, it seldom survives that either.

>Sometimes when it crashes, it trashes the file system. Of course, you could
>always restore from backup if you could make them !

Had all sorts of problems backing up in the gigabyte range .
...until I disabled Smartdrive. For a year now I do dayly backups
of 2 giga and never ever have any problem.
Using HP DDS2 DAT and a s/w package called secure.

bob