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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Sytos Plus and IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit
Message-ID: <22234.28117c59@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Apr 91 11:49:45 GMT
References: <3759@ux.acs.umn.edu> <12150003@hpnmdla.hp.com>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <12150003@hpnmdla.hp.com>, joeb@hpnmdla.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) writes:
> If your tape drive is one of the small (DC-2000) units, it should be
> compatible with Irwin EZ-Tape for OS/2.  I use an Irwin drive in my
> clone, and the EZ-Tape software backs up OS/2 partitions as well as 
> any other software.  (In other words, it doesn't backup EAs or INI
> files.)

I use the IBM Internal Tape Backup Unit in my PS/2 Model 80. It is in fact
an Irwin drive, as Joe indicates. I use the IBM Internal Tape Backup
Program (about 60 pounds sterling in the UK). Various clues scattered over
the program lead me to believe that it is in fact Irwin EZ-Tape (like strings
starting with EZ and with Irwin....).

My version handles EAs and the HPFS. It won't backup the .INI files. I have
a small utility for doing that automatically on each boot.
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