Am 11. Aug, 2003 schw=E4tzte Alan Dayley so:

> On Monday 11 August 2003 07:59 pm, Mike Starke wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:32:52PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > /_
> > /_3 - Perhaps this is more philosophical...why does all tape backup
> > /_software suck?
> >
> > Isn't that the truth. I have used at least a dozen differant ones,
> > some *nix, the rest Windows....some cost three arms and four legs.
> > They are all the same......... :-(
>
> A BIG part of the reason that most (all?) tape backup is difficult to wor=
k
> with is because tape media is difficult to work with.  As one that has
> written "tape" code that is on the inside of a a "tape" drive, the protoc=
ol
> and operation of tape media is simply a pain in the (name you favorite
> painful place)!

For backup software that's mostly irrelevant. There are these cool tools
called tar, cpio, and dd :). Backup software need only be a wrapper for
someone else's hard work :).

ciao,

der.hans
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