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From: chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary Chapman)
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Subject: Re: Report on Palindrome Archive System
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Date: 7 Mar 91 02:51:00 GMT
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There are problems with TNA, which you have not yet encountered; I think 
initial impressions of such a complex product, used in very diverse
environments, are not very useful.  Any reasonably competent program may
look great upon first inspection...

As an experienced user of TNA, let me say there are a variety of significant
problems with this software.  They say version 2.0 will address many
problems and enhancements, but it seems to be in beta-test forever.  The
company is going to charge a significant upgrade fee to fix bugs and
poor design in their software.  Let me give one example.

Say you have a server with 6000 files, and you have backed it up with TNA.
You want to examine or set the rules governing the backup of file 'xxx.xxx'.
Since this is one of the last files in your 'catalog', in fact since it
is past the 5000 mark, there is no way for you to get to this file with
their pretty display of the server's directory tree.  The limit used to
be 2500, but after sufficient customer complaint, they had the bright idea
of upping the limit to 5000.  Like so many products designed for the netware
environment, no provision was made in the software design for large-scale 
environments.  Pretty ironic for a product designed to use 2.2 gigabyte
drives.

-- Gary Chapman, New York University