Re: DUALSTOR on eCS?

From	Harry <hepgugl56@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject	Re: DUALSTOR on eCS?
Date	2013-11-10 17:50 -0500
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On 2013-11-10 10:08, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 20:41:10 UTC in comp.os.os2.setup.storage, Martin Iturbide
> <martiniturbide@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Harry.
>>
>> If Dualstor worked on Warp 4 there is very high possibility that it runs on eComStation too.
>>
>> I don't have this program around to test it out.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 7:49:31 PM UTC-5, Harry wrote:
>>> Anyone know if the old tworks on eComstation? I
>>>
>>> was using it for a few years with my tape drive as my main backup
>>>
>>> utility. Had to abandon it when I stopped using OS/2.
>
> It might run but isn't it limited to 120MB (yes, megabyte) tapes on drives that
> are attached via the floppy disk controller? In today's multi-TB drive era that
> might make running a backup a touch of an ordeal! I'd recommend just grabbing a
> USB attached hard disk or USB stick and backing up to that. Miles quicker, miles
> bigger.
>
>
I still have some OS/2 backups from back then that has some files I 
wanted to keep. You are correct though, using tape was very tedious. 
Back then, a 500M drive was considered quite large. I had a couple of 
drives which I broke up into about 9 partitions, to keep the cluster 
sizes small, for Windows, OS/2 and Linux and used OS/2 to perform the 
tape backups. If memory serves, I had the tape drive for about 2 years 
when suddenly hard drive sizes went through the roof.

-- 

Harry

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DUALSTOR on eCS? Harry <hepgugl56@gmail.com> - 2013-11-07 19:49 -0500
  Re: DUALSTOR on eCS? Martin Iturbide <martiniturbide@gmail.com> - 2013-11-08 12:41 -0800
    Re: DUALSTOR on eCS? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2013-11-10 09:08 -0600
      Re: DUALSTOR on eCS? Harry <hepgugl56@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 17:50 -0500
      Re: DUALSTOR on eCS? Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-11-10 23:29 +0000
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