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Article #10088Backup utility that compresses
From: Jerry Frain
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 01:23
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1990 01:23
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Does anyone out there know of a backup utility that *compresses* data as
it writes it to [floppy] disk?
I hate to have to spend a bazillion bucks on ~100 DSDD diskettes or
~60 DSHD diskettes it would take to back up the 80MB hard disk on my SE/030.
Not to mention the time and energy spent swapping diskettes, and the fact
that I *ideally* should have enough diskettes to keep two full backups,
or one volume backup + incrementals.
Seems like there ought to be something out there that compresses the data
prior to writing to disk. I am inclined to try my hand at writing something,
but I really do not have the time.
Ideally, I guess, I would shell out the bucks to buy a good tape backup
system. But, alas, I blew my savings (and then some) on the Mac itself.
I'd appreciate any suggestions you can give me, PD, shareware, or commercial.
Thanks in advance.
--Jerry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!deimos!phobos.cis.ksu.edu!jxf From: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Backup utility that compresses Message-ID: <1990Jan13.012318.28263@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Date: 13 Jan 90 01:23:18 GMT Sender: @deimos.cis.ksu.edu Reply-To: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) Distribution: na Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences Lines: 28