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From: ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software...
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Date: 23 Jul 89 18:44:55 GMT
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In article <9846@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>If backups are what you're looking for, I think you'll find DiskFit very
>good -- it can see AppleShare volumes, and it's fast -- I'd guess about 1.5
>Megs a minute (I have a 68030 machine, though I doubt that makes that much
>difference.)  Retrospect is archiving software, and works just find with
>tapes drives, too.

I bought a used SuperMac DataStream that came with TapeFit. Is this the same
program as DiskFit? It's extremely slow (over 7 hours to back up 65Meg not
counting 45 minutes to format each tape) on my Mac IIcx. Most of the time
seems to be spent repositioning the tape.

mike ching