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From: wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT backup-systems
Message-ID: <9774@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 25 Feb 89 21:48:49 GMT
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> 
> Actually, they are SCSI based.  Some of the Mac venders who have them are
> Jasmine and PCPC.  The only problem is... they will sell you the unit, but 
> they won't tell you thing 1 about the protocalls [apart for the standard
> SCSI] used to get the data out there.  If me brave soul were to write a
> tar/cpio driver for such a widget, the whole software distribution/backup
> issue could be resolved...


     Tecmar makes the tape unit so they would probably tell you the protocols.

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