Tape drive backup
Bryan,
I'm trying to use Corel SCSI! with:
— a TEAC MT-2ST/45S2 60 Mb streaming cassette tape drive
— a Maxtor LXT200s 200 Mb SCSI HDD
— an Acculogic ISApport model 20 SCSI host adapter
— CTBackup V1.22 and WTBackup V1.14
— Windows 3.1 / MSDOS 6.0 / 386MAX
One of the first things I tried to do was a full (190 Meg) backup of
my hard drive. I hoped to defragment and 'clean up' the drive.
My tapes are lower capacity than my hard drive. All I get is an 'end of tape'
error, and I then have to figure out which files were not backed up, to start
the next tape.
— My first question is, can Corel SCSI! do a 'full' backup onto lower capacity
tapes, automatically prompting for the next tape if necessary?
I did finally get everything onto tapes, then provided a floppy with what I
thought I would need to boot and restore the files, and then I erased the hard
drive! Oh boy.
I could not get CTBackup to rebuild a Volume file, nor could I get it to do a
'blind' restore.
When I tried to 'View Save Set' with CTBackup, the program would do various
things, always ending in a 'lockup', with it necessary for me to do a
CTRL-ALT-DEL or even power down.
To save myself, I had to reinstall DOS 4.0; do the upgrade to 6.0; reinstall
Windows; reinstalled Corel SCSI!; and I was finally able to use WTBackup to
rebuild the necessary indexes to recover the files from the tapes!
It took most of the day to figure it all out.
–Before I try such a thing again, exactly what does CTBackup need to work? (In
CONFIG.SYS?) What do I need to have set aside on an 'emergency boot floppy' to
recover my hard drive in case of a crash? The Corel SCSI! book said nothing at
all (that I could find) about Volume files or Catalog files….
Thanks for any help you can give me here.
Chan Webb