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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software...
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Date: 25 Jul 89 00:26:14 GMT
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In article <26469@amdcad.AMD.COM> ching@pepsi.AMD.COM (Mike Ching) writes:
>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.

TapeFit was an earlier, seperate program that went out with the Dataframe
tape drive line.  The current DiskFit is MUCH faster than this: it backs up
my 30 Megs of stuff in about 15 minutes.  DiskFit comes with an INIT which
allows you to mount the tape (erasing the tape takes about 1 minute;
formating takes longer, but I haven't had to do it yet.), and DiskFit takes
it from there.  It uses a cache file (I believe it's about 600K?) in some
way that makes the backup pretty speedy.

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