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Re: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS

2002-03-21 10:09:05
Subject: Re: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS
From: "Ford, Phillip" <Phillip.Ford AT SPCORP DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:06:33 -0500
I live in Memphis.  Our corporate office in New Jersey uses it extensively
for backing up their VMS systems.  That is about all I know at their site.
I have tried to evaluate it here.  I have mixed results.  On the whole it
seemed to work very well and was easy to configure.  I have two problems.

The first and major one is I have a disk with zillions of little files on
it.  The application people are using WordPerfect (yes you heard right) and
the files are keep on this disk.  I hate to even do any directory searches
on this disk.  This disk took 15 hours to do the initial backup.  I assume
that a restore would take at least that long.  An incremental takes about 8
hours with very few files changed.  This timing is not acceptable to our
users.  I have talked to ABC and they want me to talk to an engineer and see
if he can suggest any parameters to change.  I have not had time yet to do
this.  My opinion is that he can not help much but I will try when I get
time.

My second problem is with the system disk.  I had some errors about the
structure on the disk.  Due to the above problem I have not researched this
problem.  If I fix problem number one then I would tackle this problem.

From the people in New Jersey, they say that the product is working great
and that they have had no problems.

Well that is my 2 cents worth.


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Phillip Ford
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
phillip.ford AT spcorp DOT com