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From: Duane Williams
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1988 21:48
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1988 21:48
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DiskFit is a reasonable hard disk backup program, but leaves a lot to be desired. >>How many disks do you think 60meg would take (I'll be backing up to floppy)? A formatted floppy has 785K and you probably won't get better than about 97% (761K) utilization. So, (60 * 1024) / 761 = 81 floppy disks. >By the way, you only have to feed all those diskettes in when you do a full >backup of the disk. For an incremental backup, DiskFit just asks for a few >of them (depending on what's changed on your disk -- it records deletions as >well as additions and changes, so that your backup set is always current.) DiskFit often asks for more than a few disks, unless you backup very often. -- uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Sony Disks, and What do you need fo Message-ID: <1927@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 13 Jun 88 21:48:37 GMT References: <1080@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <196300015@trsvax> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 18