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Article #12013Re: Retrospect Question
From: Thumper
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:39
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:39
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In <728024516.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse) writes:
>Any idea if one can do an initial comprehensive backup to tape, then do
>incremental backups to floppy?
>
>I've recently gotten a large hard drive at home and at work we have a DAT tape
>drive. I was wondering if I could take the external drive to work, back up the
>entire drive, then perform incremental backups at home to floppy.
You couldn't do it with the same archive. Retrospect ties each one to a
specific media type. But you could have a backup archive on DAT that
automatically resets and does a comprehensive backup each time you use it
and have an incremental archive on disk at home that is based on
modification dates.
Not perfect but functional.
-Geoff
--
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