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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (6800)	3/17/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Respond to of 14778

Now that you mention it, I am familiar with Stac. I evaluated them in my last search for tape backup software about a year or so ago. We added a Qualstar/ADIC 12 tape autoloader with a Sony AIT tape drive and were in search of archive/backup software. Stac came highly recommended and seemed to perform great, except for lacking one major requirement we had. On our digital imaging servers we rarely backup the data files, we archive them or groom them, which means at the completion of a output job (anywhere from 200-300 meg but usually many gigs) we que the entire job directory for backup, and at the end of a successful backup and verify, the data files are automatically deleted. Because of the shear volume of data and # of files and to avoid constantly running out of server space, this process had to be automated. Unfortunately Stac cannot groom, or delete the data files at the end of a backup. At least the version a year ago could not. Their new replica tape product looks good, I'll have to try their eval. out for desktop use. I have an external exabyte 8700 series that would work well to move around various desktops. Thanks for the reminder, I never would have recalled it. Dan