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Article #7656Transferring Redux backup sets between disks
From: John Price
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 05:46
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 05:46
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Here's one I haven't seen before:
Background: I used to live with my parents. I have a mac+ and a
Mirror 45Mb removable ("new" Syquest mechanism) hard drive. My parents
bought themselves a blank disk to use with my drive, which they loaded up
with all sorts of stuff (as parents are wont to do... :)
I have since moved out, and I took my mac+ and hard drive with me.
They have their own SE, but no hard drive. They are interested in getting
one, however. Since I needed a new disk anyway, I took theirs after
backing it up to floppies with Redux 1.62.
Now the questions: first, for the c.s.m.hardware folks, are there
any compelling reasons *not* to buy a Mirror drive? The latest price in
MacUser is $617. That's the one they're "used" to, and they'd sort of
prefer to stay with that brand. I doubt that they need a removable, but
they're sold on that sort of drive. Please don't try to convince me that
they wouldn't need one. I've already tried convincing them. You know how
parents are. :)
Second, for the c.s.m.apps folks, assuming that there is a good
reason to get another drive, are there any problems transferring a Redux
backup set from a particular brand of drive to another one? There
shouldn't be, since ideally the program shouldn't care what sort of drive
I try to restore to, as long as it's big enough, but I'd like to hear it
from someone who knows more about what they're talking about than I do.
Thanks in advance!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!ucla-seas!PRICE@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu From: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Transferring Redux backup sets between disks Message-ID: <0094544E.45158E80@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 05:46:09 GMT Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: UCLA Particle Physics Research Group Lines: 36