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In article <3179fab1.2451028@news.demon.co.uk>
           matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk "Matt West" writes:

" I have seen an advert for the Danmere Backer that backs your hard disk
" onto VHS tape through a video recorder. [snip]
" 
" Does anyone know if this product is any good or can suggest any
" alternatives for this price ?

[and next two posts also read]

    A word of warning.  Such devices were on the market about 5 years
 (or perhaps more) ago.  They were, at that date *not reliable*,
 despite writing no less than FOUR copies of all data on the tape.
 The follow-up posters are solicited to give reports of the
 reliability of the backups they have made, particularly after 'n'
 months storage of the tape!

    [Note:  There's a catch-22 situation on testing of big backups.
 Unless you have a spare hard drive, how do you do a test-restore
 without losing all your data?  I dunno.  But at least you can run the
 tape through the program's verification section again.]

    And remember that the quality of videotapes varies greatly.  It
 won't take a very large drop-out on the tape to ruin your backup.

    And, when backing up Network drives, does the Russian software also
 back up all the permissions etc?

    And would it, by any chance, be willing to back up a *logical*
 (SUBSTed) drive?  (Yes, I know Windoze doesn't like SUBST; but it's
 brilliant in DOS.)

                                        Chris K.
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