Hi Denton,
Have you tried a restore? You may have a later version, but the original
Windows 95/98 backup has a Norton Backup (long dead product) look and feel
and will recover Norton tapes (QIC type). I believe Norton had the same
folks that later created Arcada Backup subcontract the software. Arcada
never delivered on it's "total backup" of all files needed to recover your
Windows system, plus they had some terrible design flaws in the software. If
you lost your master catalog file, you could only rebuild a catalog for one
tape at a time and you couldn't save the tape's recovered catalog. A
nightmare if you have a lot of backup or large capacity tapes. I had both.
Seagate bought Arcada, came out with a new version that didn't support
backups done with Arcada Backup and generally showed the poorest customer
support I've seen in the industry. Not surprising they sold the backup
business which is now Veritas Software.
By all means, test your backup's restore before you have a problem. And
remember that you'll need to keep a copy of the backup program and the
version of Windows it's designed to run under for as long as your files are
viable candidates for restoration. I've been burned by the best backup
software available for Windows (aside from the expensive and powerful
network software out there)... big time. CD's without funky data compression
from backup software will be readable by any Windows computer in the
forseeable future.
Best,
BJ Nicholls
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Denton Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 8:35 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [OM] Zip drive repair?
At 04:54 PM 12/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Didn't your CDR include software, or are you looking for a dedicated
>"backup" program? The Windows backup doesn't support many devices (no CD
>burners that I know of) and the other software out there is problematic.
I'm telling you guys, that after a few months of strictly copying files to
my CD-R drive, I decided, just for the hell of it, to try a backup. Using
WIN98 and the backup software that comes with Windows (written by Seagate,
I might add) that it was no problem to do a backup to CD-R.
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Denton Taylor
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