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README Driver File Contents (mountain.zip)

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All new enhancements are explained in the Tape Software Manual.

PROS AND CONS OF VERIFICATION
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Your TAPE software offers a verify option which is set to YES
by default.  While a verify pass as part of a backup does
increase the total time to perform a backup (approximately
doubling the time), it is an important operation to perform, at
least periodically, to ensure both the tape drive and the
computer are functioning without error.
 
The tape drive performs a read-after-write operation (in which
data recorded to tape is immediately re-read and compared against
buffers in memory and on the tape drive). However, if data was 
"scrambled" while being transferred through the computer memory to the 
tape drive (due to a failure of the computers Direct Memory Access 
(DMA) chip, or, if applicable, a network interface), the read-after-write
operation will not catch the error.  Running a verify pass during backups 
will catch such errors. 
 

NOTES ON NEW VIRTUAL DISK SUPPORT
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A new feature which allows using virtual disk during selective tape
operations of large directory structures (10,000+ directories and
files) creates up to two temporary files on the disk assigned
by the operator.  These are $MEMORY1.TMP and $MEMORY2.TMP.  If the
TAPE software is abnormally aborted (e.g., the system is rebooted
during a tape operation), these files are not deleted by the TAPE
software.  You may wish to manually delete them using the DOS DEL or
ERASE commands.

This new feature will NOT support selectively restoring from a full
(image) backup of a large directory structure.  Such a backup may
need to be restored in increments if an insufficient memory error
occurs.  Therefore, if you are backing up large directory structures,
we recommend using selective backup.


NETWARE USERS
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Under Novell, if you are backing up multiple servers in a single
network, you must be logged to a disk on the server you are going
to backup.  You may specify a search path to a disk on another
server if that is where the TAPE software is installed.

Example:  Server 1 contains the TAPE software and you are attached
to Server 2.  As part of the login script for server 2, a search
drive has been mapped for drive M: to point to the tape directory
(e.g., MAP S3:=SYS:/MTN_TAPE, the directory containing the TAPE 
software).  To backup Server 2, log to a drive assigned to 
a Server 2 volume (e.g., if H: is mapped to Server 2, then switch to
H: prior to starting the TAPE program).


COMMAND LINE OPERATIONS
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Caution: an unfortunate feature of the command line options
causes the TAPE_DTE.DAT file to be updated during selective
backup if *.*/s is used as a parameter. For example,

     TAPE SBK C:\DOS\*.*/S

would backup only the files in the \DOS directory and its
subdirectories, but would incorrectly set the current date
as the last date of complete backup. This would cause use
of the "Backup of modified files by archive bit or since"
option to miss files dated between the current date and
the last full (or complete selective) backup. Use one of
the forms:

      TAPE SBK C:\DOS/S
  or  TAPE SBK C:\DOS\/S

instead, which do not modify the TAPE_DTE.DAT file.