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Subject  :  Support information for Sytos
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  16 Jul, 2004 on 16:46
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.


Subject  :  Re: Support information for Sytos ;-(
Author  :  icebear
Date  :  17 Jul, 2004 on 11:50
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


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  17 Jul, 2004 on 18:12
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


Subject  :  Re: Your very, very little chance of Support for Sytos ...
Author  :  icebear
Date  :  17 Jul, 2004 on 19:11
... 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 !!!


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  Henk
Date  :  18 Jul, 2004 on 11:41

Sam (17 Jul, 2004 18:12):
Thanks first for the info. But I am out of luck becasue I don't know German.
Would appreciate for any information for this.
Thanks again

try this:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&u=http%3A//www.cristie.de/index.php%3Fid%3D26

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With kind regards,

Henk/2


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de
Date  :  19 Jul, 2004 on 18:44
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


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  Kim
Date  :  19 Jul, 2004 on 19:44
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).


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  warpcafe warpcafe@yahoo.de
Date  :  20 Jul, 2004 on 09:07

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


Subject  :  Re:Support information for Sytos
Author  :  Sam
Date  :  20 Jul, 2004 on 18:37
Icebear, Henk, Thomas, Kim

Thank you very much for your information. Greatly appreciated


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