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Article #9334Is MacTools CP Backup as bad as it seems?
From: Arne Nordmark
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:49
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:49
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PROBLEM: Want to make sure that nothing of your days work gets lost. SOLUTION: Buy Central Point MACTOOLS ver2 with its nifty scheduler that lets you do automatic backups at any desired times. Do a full backup and configure it to do incremental backups everytime you shut your computer down. Now you can be sure that everything you have done during any session gets backed up and you are safe. SURPRISE: Your hard disk crashes and a week has passed since you made your full backup. You have created lots of new documents and put your trust in the automatic incremental backups that are made everytime you switch your Mac off. No problem, restore the files. But WAIT A MINUTE! Where are all the NEW DOCUMENTS! THE MANUAL: CP Backup does only back up files that change, not any new files. You can't SAVE any selection criteria such as which folders to back up or which file name patterns to ignore. Oh. Of course. How stupid of me to expect anything else. I'm so sorry. BTW Where is the trashcan? No not that one. The REAL trashcan. Thank you. -- Arne Nordmark Tel: 08 - 790 71 95 KTH/Mekanik 100 44 STOCKHOLM Email: nordmark@mech.kth.se
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!nada.kth.se!nordmark From: nordmark@nada.kth.se (Arne Nordmark) Subject: Is MacTools CP Backup as bad as it seems? Message-ID: <1992Dec21.104949.3035@kth.se> Originator: nordmark@lindstedt.mech.kth.se Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: lindstedt.mech.kth.se Reply-To: nordmark@nada.kth.se (Arne Nordmark) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:49:49 GMT Lines: 28