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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
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Subject: Re: Helical scan tape backups, any idea's please
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Date: 20 Sep 90 23:04:13 GMT
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Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.system, article <15434.26f76ff8@levels.sait.edu.au>,
  xtasc@levels.sait.edu.au writes:

< secondly Retrospect, the only concern here is that the catalog file needs
< to be stored on a seperate disk or server.

Which is a good idea because if you do an incremental backup, you don't want
to read the whole archive from tape...

incidentally, Retrospect does store the catalog information on the tape, too;
there's a special command to restore a catalog from the archive
("Recatalog").

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