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From: alistair
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 11:54

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We have recently bought a MaxStream tape streamer, manufactured by Archive. 
I am very disppointed to find that the sotware does not allow the restoration
 of single files, but only all the files backed up in a given session. This 
has many disadvantages ("Oh rats! I've just deleted that file. Never mind, 
I have a backup on tape I took on Tuesday - I wonder if any of the other 
files I backed up then have changed. I'll want the more up-to-date (disc) 
version." Yuk!) It also means that it had better work. If I want to check 
that the complete backup I've just taken was okay, I will have to restore my 
whole disc - what a shame if it gets covered with crap.

The MaxStream just connects through SCSI. Is there any other better software 
around which could/should do better. Does anyone from Archive read this group 
and care to comment? Incidently we chose this streamer partly because according 
to the write-ups we saw, the software was better than most.

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University of York, York, England YO1 5DD

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From: alistair@minster.york.ac.uk
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Date: 4 Jun 90 11:54:45 GMT
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