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  3. August 2001

RE: SAVxxx SEQNBR(11) bombs if #11 already on tape???

Been so long I can't keep my model numbers straight...2440 it is!

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:51 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: SAVxxx SEQNBR(11) bombs if #11 already on tape???

>It really did work on reel-to-reel tapes.  Streaming drives, designed for
>"bulk processing" (save/restore) are much different from reel-to-reel
>drives, which were originally designed to process (meaning lots of
>back-and-forth stuff, the crap you see on really bad sci-fi movies) tape
>data, before disk technology took off.

I completely agree with this.  Working for a very frugal company, we did
backups to a 2440 for many years, and had many opportunities to "re-start"
the backup at SEQNUM(42).

Buck

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