| Support information for Sytos |
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1. Support information for Sytos |
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| Hi Is there any where in the internet one can search the support information of sytos for OS/2 2.x (from Veritas) ? Or is there any end user community which share the usage experience of discontinued OS/2 products ? Thanks in adance. |
| Date: 16 Jul, 2004 on 16:46 |
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2. Re: Support information for Sytos ;-( |
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SYTOS, I am still using it too, is a very old SW and came from Sytron ! Sytron went to Seagate some years ago !! In the meantime they are nowhere !!!One has only one chance: Either it works with your environment ... ... or one has to forget it !! If one needs a serious Backup Tool, with OS/2 Support, there is: Christies PC-BaX and here is the link (in German only): http://www.cristie.de/index.php?id=26 |
| Date: 17 Jul, 2004 on 11:50 |
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3. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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| Thanks first for the info. But I am out of luck becasue I don't know German. I asked this question because I am aslo the user of Sytos Premium software. Just want to see whether help can be found somewhere. I remember there should be a end user based self help sites for OS/2 related software, but cannot recall its exact URL. Would appreciate for any information for this. Thanks again |
| Date: 17 Jul, 2004 on 18:12 |
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4. Re: Your very, very little chance of Support for Sytos ... |
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| ... is at Seagate !? But as previously mentioned: Sytos SW is very, very old !!! (Y)our chances are really very very little ;-( BTW: Write to Cristie's contact address ! I am sure you get an answer in English !! You will also get trial version if you ask !!! |
| Date: 17 Jul, 2004 on 19:11 |
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5. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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| Date: 18 Jul, 2004 on 11:41 |
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6. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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last updated at 19 Jul, 2004 18:46 (1 times) Hi folks,of course there is an english site of Cristies: http://www.cristie.co.uk/index.php?id=26 They don't explicitly mention PC-BaX for OS/2, but they dont mention other OSes as well - you might try out to register for free and download a trial version of it. I've been using it for more than 2 years (and I used Sytos previously as well as IBM Dualstor and BackAgain 2K) and this is the best and most reliable piece of backup sofware for OS/2 I have used so far. Once you get used to their way of "GUI", it's a great piece of software. I bought mine at eBay BTW for about 10 US$.  Greetings Thomas |
| Date: 19 Jul, 2004 on 18:44 |
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7. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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| Well, if there hasn't been made any radical changes at Cristies, the OS2 version is still around, sold and maintained. Another good thing about PC-Bax is that it supports cross-os (os2, win, linux and I think also aix). |
| Date: 19 Jul, 2004 on 19:44 |
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8. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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Kim (19 Jul, 2004 19:44): Another good thing about PC-Bax is that it supports cross-os (os2, win, linux and I think also aix).
Right. I use a Tandberg SCSI Streamer (TDC3700) that uses qwx 3210 xl tapes (qic-wide 3210) which is a quite outdated product but works reliably. Although that device is supported as a "SCSI" device, I prefer to use Cristies ASPI driver instead of SCSI driver - I feel it works more smoothless and a bit "faster" than hte SCSI driver. So if anyone here has troubles with SCSI streamers, I suggest to use the ASPI driver... anyway PC-BaX supports other devices as well - quite a lot. I don't know however if it supports writing to CDR/RW/DVD... I tried desperately to get support/info on Sytos when I was using it but I quickly decided to move away from it as Seagate seemed to only purchase it in order to have a control on letting it die  I then used BA2K from CDS but I had some problems with trying to restore data from a tape that was "successfully written" - that was annoying, as it was the disaster recovery tape. Support didn't answer me in any way and when I was able to get my hands on a 10 Euro version of PC-BaX for OS/2 (server version) at eBay, I said to myself "heck - why not ?" and I was surprised how good that piece of software actually is. Anyone not satisfied with BA2K (which I still believe to be a good product!) should try PC-BaX! Greeting Thomas |
| Date: 20 Jul, 2004 on 09:07 |
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9. Re:Support information for Sytos |
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| Icebear, Henk, Thomas, Kim Thank you very much for your information. Greatly appreciated |
| Date: 20 Jul, 2004 on 18:37 |
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