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From: carl@doctor.Tymnet.COM (Carl Baltrunas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Exabyte and MacDump (Was: Can I Back Up my Hard Drive on my VCR)
Keywords: 8mm Backup Exabyten
Message-ID: <1459@doctor.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 91 04:10:30 GMT
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In article <1991Jan3.233554.24170@cs.ucla.edu> tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) writes:
>In article <1991Jan3.072809.8406@pdn.paradyne.com> news@pdn.paradyne.com (News Subsystem) writes:
>>In article <081735.862@timbuk.cray.com> rjt@sedist.cray.com (Randy Thomas) writes:
>>We have asked Exabyte if they have any drivers for the Macs. Alas, no
>>they dont consider it a big enough market to get into?? I have not heard
>>of any re-marketers having software for it either.
>
>Retrospect works just fine with Exabyte tape drives.
>
>Tom
>
Um... I just hooked a Sun boot box with a approx 600MB WREN-VI and a 60MB
archive tape and tried running Fastback II and it was able to see and use
the tape drive.  I didn't get any "extra" driver.

Since the Exabyte is seen on the SCSI bus as a tape device, I'd expect this
to work as well.  (When I get a chance, I'll try it and let you know.  We
just put an Exabyte on a Sun SLC workstation, and it`s protable so I can
just hook it up and try it out.)

-Carl

PS.  Does anyone know what is a good tape-reading/writing program for the
     Mac?  I'd like to maybe write TAR format tapes and read/write them on
     the same portable tape drive... thus I can backup my Mac, and also move
     very LARGE amounts of data between my Sun/Unix system and my Mac.


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