Re: Firewire [solution for DAT and other tape drives]

2000-08-25 Thread Ken Gillett
Does Dantz have any experience of these type of adapters? Would Retrospect deal with the DAT drive correctly? At 1:58 PM -0500 24/8/00, Douglas K Wyman wrote: Native FireWire on tape drives?...not yet but here are some other solutions: Orange Micro and Ratoc Systems have both introduced

Event Handler errors

2000-08-25 Thread Welch, John C.
I'm getting errors from the event handler stating that it cannot perform text operations of files greater than 32K in size. Ideas? john -- "Lo Que Sea, Cuando Sea, Donde Sea" (Anything, Anytime, Anywhere) 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) --

Firewire to SCSI adapters (updated)

2000-08-25 Thread Douglas K Wyman
(I have updated this note to include another vendor/product) Native FireWire on tape drives?...not yet but here are some other solutions: Orange Micro and Ratoc Systems have both introduced FireWire/SCSI adapters that allow a single SCSI device to be connected to IEEE 1349 (FireWire). These

Re: Protecting a backup server from prying eyes

2000-08-25 Thread Jim Coefield
Thanks Larry, This sounds like a decent compromise between the extremes (no Protection, the Multiple User work arounds, and high security like DiskGuard or others). I don't think that most folks wandering around my office would be able to figure out that they would need a reboot to defeat

RE: Protecting a backup server from prying eyes

2000-08-25 Thread Stephen Jones
Speaking of protecting data, there is a way to encrypt your tapes at the hardware level with different forms of encryption -- all based on Smartcards with varying access levels. This works perfectly with Retrospect. This way, if your tape should grow legs, the data could not be restored -- even

Auto Loader asking for tapes - Normal??

2000-08-25 Thread Adam Hill
I am doing my first multi-tape restore with an Exabyte 17D (DLT) and Retrospect asked me to insert the tape. Is this normal? The device manager pane had all of the tapes in the right slots, it didn't want to procede until I ejected the current tape and loaded the correct one. adam... --