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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Backup utility that compresses
Message-ID: <1990Jan22.161446.13026@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 22 Jan 90 16:14:46 GMT
References: <1990Jan21.221803.11834@smsc.sony.com> <37991@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
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In article <37991@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>>	   anyway, it didn't mark any files as backed up, so my
>>	   incremental backups are all being done by restricting the
>>	   modification date range.
>
>Retrospect is very flexible here. It has a fairly complex way of figuring
>out what's been changed and what hasn't that looks at # of bytes,
>modification date and other factors. In fact, it will recognize that file
>"foo" in folder bar and file "foo" in folder baz are the same file and only
>copy one (if signature and type match, size matches, date matches, etc..).
>This can be overridden if you do want duplicates copies.

You took me a out of context a little here, Chuq.

FastBack II does fine with figuring out what's changed as long as the
original backup finished fine.  In my case, I couldn't figure out how
to make it realize that the files had been backed up.

Another thing I left out is that the estimation stuff seems broken.
The first time I used FBII, it displayed an estimate of the
backup size.  Since that time, I've been unable to get an estimate,
even after reading the entire manual (albeit in pieces).

In any case, it sounds like I wasted $107 buying FastBack II.  Even if
I were happy with it, I still wasted $60, since a few days after I got
it, Fifth Generation offered it to me at a reduced price, and didn't
even answer me when I told them what happened on the registration
card.

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