Re: BACKUP by Tape/Central Point

[Sean Chou <ychou>]

> After reading the manuals and looking at all the help files I find that this
> program can be used with a lot of internal units and via network, but there
> is no mentioning of the only practical solution for backing up a laptop and
> transporting files to stationary system: a external unit that works with the
> paralell port.

There is no way I know of to get an external tape non-SCSI tape
(or maybe any external tape) to work with the Backup program
that came with PC-DOS 6.1.  You should contact the manufacturer
of the external tape drive to see if they have a program available
for it.  What type of tape drive is it?