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From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files
Message-ID: <10398@claris.com>
Date: 17 Jul 89 20:06:49 GMT
References: <33205@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <33205@apple.Apple.COM>, by dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons):
>>My greatest gripe is something I didn't realize until I read it. The fact
>>that no backup utility supports GS/OS 5.0 yet.  So my hard drive happens to
>>crash.. I can kiss a lot of work goodbye.
> 
> No special backup utility has to exist.  Any existing ProDOS 8-based backup
> utility that does an image backup of your volume will work with no problem.
> Same for GS/OS-based image backup utilities, except possibly if you're trying
> to back up your boot volume.

This is nice if you like image backups.  Unfortunately, image backups are
only useful for the particular model of hard drive you are backing up.
Frequently, if the hard drive dies, it gets replaced with a different one,
in which case your image bcakup is useless.

I need a file-by-file incremental backup, and one has to be written to
deal with extended files.  This way I can restore files to *any* hard
drive, I can take files larger than a floppy to another hard drive, etc.

It would also be nice to have a tape backup driver for Apple's 40 MB tape
driver.

I realize that I am asking for the moon; it just seems a shame that the
OS makes all existing file-by-file backup systems obsolete and doesn't
offer a utility to replace it.


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