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From: russw@cs.utexas.edu (Russ Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: CMS 60/120MB tape drives
Message-ID: <17893@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 21:00:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.021614.13426@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <26853@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <173@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM> <175@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM>
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In article <175@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM> nee@cf_su14.Salomon.Com (Robert Nee) writes:
>I get transfer rates of 3.6 MB per minute on 80 meg
>backups using Central Point Backup and compression.

I'd always heard that all the tape drives used proprietary formats and you
were stuck using only the manufacturer's backup program.  Is this changing?
Does CPBackup support many tape drives?  Do other backup programs do this?

--Russ