Don't bother with the compare unless it is essential backup for archive and
or disaster recovery of mission critical software/data. Just randomly select
a few files now and agian for restore. If they work and ther were no error
messages then you should be ok. Try increasing the RAM you have is the other
option
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
GP Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton Sheffield S20 5JX
Tel;0114 269 5061 Fax;0114 269 7186
GP Tutor Informatics - N Trent
http://www.medical-legal.co.uk
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>From: [log in to unmask]
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David Evans
>Sent: 15 July 1998 16:37
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Ditto Max tape drives
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>
>Does anyone in the group have experience of these drives? I just
>bought one to back up my hard disk at home and it seems to take
>forever. It is plugged into the parallel port of my laptop and takes
>at least 20 hours to back up 900 MB of data. Only about 2 hours of
>this time is the backup itself. The rest is the "compare" function
>which verifies the backed up data. Is this normal for external tape
>drives? I expected it to be slow but not this slow!
>
>I was thrown off Iomega's automatic helpline system after waiting on
>hold for 10mins and have now sent them a fax, but I'd be grateful for
>anyone else's opinion on this.
>
>David
>
>
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>Dr David Evans
>Cardiff
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