Re: Iomega Ditto tape unreliable?
What version of ftape and zftape are you using? I myself am using version
3.04d with the Iomega Ditto 2G and so far have not had any problems. I
have backedup several times and verified them along with doing some
restoring. I haven't taken the total plunge yet because I need to set up
a special boot disk for it. I am also using Taper. I have found it to be
easy and effective to use.
Alex
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have been using an internal Iomega Ditto 2G tape for some time now to
> make backups - both in Dos and in Linux.
>
> In Dos, it works wonderfully well and efficient. However, as soon as you
> want to verify or restore backups made using Linux frustration starts:
>
> A lot of errors start showing. Over the weekend I was trying to restore
> from a recently made backup which was made using dump. Restore ran for a
> few hours without restoring a single file from the selection I made and in
> the end gave up with a hardware error notice.
>
> I then got hold of a new tape, made a backup using tob. I cannot get tob
> to read back from a backup made by tob so I used afio to verify the
> backup. It has been running now for about 12 hours and did not finish the
> job yet. There is about 1 gig data on the tape compressed to about
> 560meg. This is just not acceptable. When done in Dos it takes about 3
> hours to backup and verify 600 meg of data.
>
> Is there hope for a reliable backup and restore program in Linux? I have
> tried tob, tbackup, dump and restore and no one so far could give me the
> impression that the system is reliable.
>
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