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From: SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu (Steven A. Schrader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Backup
Message-ID: <90186.100226SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 14:02:26 GMT
References: <90180.121617SAS102@psuvm.psu.edu> <615@dbase.A-T.COM>
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In article <4308@insted.unimelb.edu.au>, LGEORGE@insted.unimelb.edu.au (Lord
Vader) says:
>
>In article <615@dbase.A-T.COM>, cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster) writes:
>> Best of luck to you.  I was not successful, when in the same situation
>> (did a volume backup, not by file, right? Who would, when it takes
>> 5 times longer!).  Apparently the drive you restore to must have
>> *exactly* the same number of formatted blocks as when you backed it
>> up (anyone with more precise info, please correct me). I tried to
>> restore to four or five machines here, and all of them had a slightly
>> different disk size, so it wouldn't copy.
>>
>> --Cy--    cy@dbase.a-t.com
>
>Did you try apple Tape Disk INIT?
>It allows you to mount volume backups with Apple's Tape Backup Drive as finder
>volumes...  It's slow, but its mounted.
>It should be with the Tape Backup Software...
>You can also look for it on any 'excelent' cd :)
>Otherwise, email me, and I'll send you a copy.
>--
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Actually that is what I used to get it back.  It was slow, but Hey I'll take it
 when the opposite ersult is either paying bucks to get it retreived via a comp
any, or losing the data. It worked very well, and in fact I like backing up
that way ...
                   Steven A. Schrader (SAS102 @ Psuvm.Bitnet)
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