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Not knowing much about the volume of data you need to back up, I
nonetheless will recommend Orbit's BackupPlus product to you to
accomplish what you need.  We use the product in a very similar manner
for our non-production backups where an operator is not available.
BackupPlus allows a job-specific option of autoreply for all drives in
use for that task, but the devices need not be hard-configured for
autoreply.  The product also supports newer DDS and DLT drives,
appended backup (I believe the most current version of the software
supports this on DLT), flexible file specification syntax and options,
STOREJCW support and extensive proprietary JCWs and local variables for
error-trapping and decision-making within the job.

Their technical support is top-notch, as well.  Very responsive and
with world-wide 24-hour support access.

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Lee Gunter
Regence HMO Oregon

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Subject: [HP3000-L] Backup strategies
Author:  "Stigers; Gregory - ANDOVER" <[log in to unmask]> at ~INTERNET
Date:    8/4/97 6:58 PM


What would you do if you were me (I mean, besides suicide or extensive
plastic surgery)?

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We are considering all options: third-party backup software that allows
appending to tape, or changing this backup procedure to allow as much
recovery as possible but just backing up once, or coming up with some
really great hack to allow us to append to tapes, or just insisting that
ops keep inserting tapes throughout the night. Considered opinions
welcome.