Re: GSTape Question

[klucke@aone.com (Ken Lucke)]

>
>I tried Tim's e-mail address from the demo, and never got a reply, but 
>I've heard it's a fine program.  I never got the demo to work either.
>
>--

It's an excellent program, I have been using it for a couple of years now
on a RAMFast/Sony DAT 2 gig tape drive...  but there is ONE thing to watch
for - I recently had some problems with an external drive on a Mac, and
decided the only final cure was to reformat - not having a tape backup for
the mac, I moved it to the GS, and did a backup using GStape - it backed
up fine.  However, when I did the restore, ALL the fines came out as
generic document icons - GSTape did NOT preserve the option list, which
would have restored the files to their original types and creators. 
UGH!!!  Fortunately, that drive held nothing that I could not replace with
a few hours web surfing and downloading - the few files I couldn't replace
I was able to change the filetype/creator on and they were fine, but I
could have never done that on a wholesale basis on the entire drive.

So... moral to the story is - DON'T rely on GSTape to back up a Mac drive
(backing up HFS parititions is fine on the GS - I have several massive
partitions I back up all the time, and have successfully restored to when
needed - it's just actual Mac files that will not be preserved correctly).

Ken