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From: brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell Tape Backup and Emerald
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.213249.2854@cimage.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 21:32:49 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.130509.29145@pdn.paradyne.com> <1114@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Reply-To: brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley)
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1114@intelisc.isc.intel.com> karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes:
>In article <1991Jan24.130509.29145@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon) writes:
>>I have a question for the Novell admins out there....
>>
>>Does anyone make a 8mm tape backup system for novell that supports the
>>soon to be available Exabyte 8500 which stores 5g on each tape?  Is
>>anyone working on it?
>>

>>Does anyone have a solution to 8mm tape backup on Novell that they
>>really like?  I would love to hear about it.

Just don't buy a system from Emerald.  We are finally getting rid of ours :-)
We've decided to go with TNA from Palindrome also.  I feel the TNA software
is rather overpriced and it definitely has it's problems, but I feel it is
better than anything else I've seen and I like the idea that they separate the
drive from the software (after all, it's just an Exabyte!) 


For TNA problems: try backing up a read only filesystem or a WORM; the TNA
software *must* create a \TNA directory on the volume to hold your indices :-(
Palindrome doesn't have a fix.  Maybe in some future release, they say...


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