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Article #33204Re: DiskFit VS Redux: My DEFINITE conclusion
From: Bruce Hoof
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 19:13
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1988 19:13
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In article <9937@cup.portal.com> Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com writes:
>Just to throw in my 2 cents here, I just finshed backing up my 140 meg Jasmine
>with Redux 1.01 after I restored it with FastBack after, I beleive, the latest
>SUM bug fix trashed the HD so bad that even SUM could not bring it back....
>
>Well, Redux is VERY nice, and A LOT more powerful than FastBack 1.02, but, and
>this a big but when it comes to backing up, the same HD (obviousy, and all the
>same files) took Redux THREE HOURS!!! to backup. The same HD took FastBack
>88 minutes.... Quite a difference. I should also point out that Redux took
>102 disks to FastBack's 123 (including catalog disk). Looks like FastBack is
> ...
But what's 21 disks when it comes to time and information. For those
of us who Join a User Group large enough to have a store with generic disk, the
price per disk is as low as $1.05. Is < $23 worth the hour and a half you will
save using FastBack?.
Bruce Hoof
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!hoofb From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: DiskFit VS Redux: My DEFINITE conclusion Message-ID: <1074@psu-cs.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 88 19:13:26 GMT References: <1988Oct4.162537.8158@mntgfx.mentor.com> <1988Oct5.085923.97@mn <9937@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR Lines: 29