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From: brian@cimage.com (Brian Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Report on Palindrome Archive System
Keywords: archive, simple, fast
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.215325.10091@cimage.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 21:53:25 GMT
References: <1177@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Reply-To: brian@dgsi.UUCP (Brian Kelley)
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <1177@intelisc.isc.intel.com> karinc@intelisc.iSC.intel.com (Karin Coffee) writes:
>I have completed my installation of the Palindrome software and an Exabyte
>8200sx 2.2 Gb tape drive.  So far.....it's great!

It is a pretty good package.  We're using it also.


>Thus far, I have been very impressed with the Palindrome software.  It does
>take approximately 1 mb of space on each volume that you protect with it,
>but it also performs disk grooming, and will ask you if you want to migrate
>files if they haven't been accessed (it uses the Netware access bit) for
>x number of weeks.  The default is 12 weeks.

While it is a very good piece of software, it is not without it's faults.

The software likes to put it's index files in a sub-directory off of the
root of the volume you're backing up (\TNA).  There is currently no way to
force TNA to store your indices elsewhere.  This causes all sorts of
problems:

	- If the volume you're backing up is full, TNA cannot create it's
	  index data in the \TNA directory.  This causes your backup to
	  abort.  You can't backup a full volume!

	- If you want to backup a Read-Only filesystem, TNA cannot create it's
	  index data.. again, no backup...

I'd like to put all of my indices in one basket (err, place).

While I feel this is a fairly serious limitation, I do like the software and
would recommend it.  The only other gripe is that (compared to our Suns
dumping to Exabytes over the network) it is really quite slow (~3-4 megabytes
per minute).



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