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From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Why I do not like SR10
Message-ID: <15995@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 18:25:28 GMT
Reply-To: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University
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What kind of software engineering is this?  I was doing a "wbak" as
part of our normal backup procedure.  At the start of the fourth tape,
after wbak prompted me to mount another tape, my fingers got a little
ahead of my brain and I typed "go" a split second before the tape came online.

wbak's response?  "Unexpected error - tape offline"

OK fine.  Now any sane backup tool would surely say "Do you want
to retry the open?" and give you another chance.  It's not
as if "tape offline" is some sort of bizarre totally unexpected
error condition.

But what does wbak do when it finds the tape offline?  It QUITS!
I have to start all over again! Three hours of work down the drain!
Thank you Apollo!  Merry Christmas to you too!

Grrr.

Give me "dump(8)" or give me death.