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I just got the Conner Tape*Stor.  I agree it's quietier the Colorado
and I prefere the eject button.  

Has anyone used the original software that came with it?  When I use it,
(I reboot with DOS first) I get errors.  I get about 3 or so per-tape I use
to backup.  If I run verify, It says the errors are corrected.  But this
scares me (A tape backup is supposed to give you peace of mind, right?).
Once, I didn't verify, and when I tried to unbackup a test directory it
says file unrecoverable (...or something close to that).  

I'm going to buy BackMaster/FastBack plus for OS/2 but I want to know is
my tape drive defective?  I'm still able to return it.  Is that many errors
common?  I'm still not going to delete thing of my HD yet.

Also, does the 'Windoze' software run seamless in OS/2 ?  I havn't attempted
to use that yet.  That's the software that came with Connor for Windows.
Thanks for anyone who can reply to the message.  E-mail is prefered.

                                                Jason

I have one too. I got about 500 errors when trying to restore a 66MB
backup to disk. So I sent it for a replacement, but I'm not sure that
will help (I have not yet received the replacement). I suspect the
quality of the drive isn't very good, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I
have heard a lot of people having the same problems. I discovered it
made a great difference if I ejected the tape before doing the verify
pass (you can't do that in CBB/DOS but with Norton backup you can
eject the tape and put it back in and then do the verify). If I don't
eject the tape before verify, it gives me about 3-4 errors per
backup. But if I do eject the tape and then insert it  again to
verify, I get lots and lots of errors, sometimes the drive cannot
even read the tape at all.

Seamless backup programs don't perform well in OS/2.

                                -- Henrik
--

               Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
      "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere."

Quote:>I just got the Conner Tape*Stor.  I agree it's quietier the Colorado
>and I prefere the eject button.  

>Has anyone used the original software that came with it?  When I use it,
>(I reboot with DOS first) I get errors.  I get about 3

 HH> or so per-tape I use

Quote:>to backup.  If I run verify, It says the errors are corrected.  But this
>scares me (A tape backup is supposed to give you peace of mind, right?).
>Once, I didn't verify, and when I tried to unbackup a test directory it

        I have the TapeStor 250 (two in fact).  At first I had a host of
problems with it.  I discovered that I needed to format the tape -- even if it
was preformatted -- to insure maximum reliability.  This goes for both of my
units.  I've backed up my system numerous times (and restored it many times as
well), and it has never given me a problem since.
        I would highly recommend BackMaster as your OS/2 software.  Make sure
you get 1.01A.  The only think BackMaster lacks is a good automated backup
scheduler.

Ian

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