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From: ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Colorado Memory tape backup
Keywords: Colorado, tape, backup
Message-ID: <1991Apr05.201032.18708@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 20:10:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: ariel.1991Apr05.201032.18708
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In article <1991Apr5.170102.18677@cbnewsl.att.com> feg@moss.ATT.COM
(Forrest Gehrke) writes:

>The CMS software allows you an unattended backup option,
>contrary to another poster I have read in this group
>who complained about the need for interactive backup.

When are you people going to learn to listen to what I mean, and not what I
say?  ;^)

I did write that rather badly...the backup itself is automatic, as Forrest
states.  The things I find to be a collective pain in the callipygian pore are
1) the tape drive taking well over a minute to orient the tape (or something)
after the cartridge is pushed in,  2) the worse-than-Mac menu you have to use
to do a quick-erase and 3) add a new volume label (actually, there are two
labels called for, so make that 4) ), and finally 5), it will let you tell it
to do a backup.  If you forget to set the write tab, you have to go through 1)
twice.

What it does, it does well.  I just wish there were some way to run it with
a batch file rather a bitching operator (me!).

And while we're at it, I want an 800 THz clock, 256-bit wide bus and processor
archetecture, no wait states, 8 Gb memory, a flat address space over _all_ of
it for MSDOS, 65,536 parallel slave processors of the type just described, and
and and and and...guuuuuukkkk....



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