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From: peter@wacsvax.OZ (Peter Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup solutions
Message-ID: <1547@wacsvax.OZ>
Date: 19 Mar 90 01:20:09 GMT
References: <18146@cs.yale.edu> <1860@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@wacsvax.cs.uwa.oz.au.OZ (Peter Dodd)
Organization: Comp Sci, University of Western Australia
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In article <1860@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>In article <18146@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.Yale.EDU (michael tarr) writes:
>>
>>I am looking for a reasonably priced backup system (less than $2000)
>>that plugs into the mac scsi port -- and also on my PC
>>tarr@cs.yale.edu
>
>I'm using a 44mb Bernoulli removable disk for

I use 45Meg Syquest drives.

>backup....
>Syquest removables can crash.  Bernoullis
>can't.  Gives one a nice secure feeling for
>a backup medium.  Tape is too slow, and you
>can't just mount it and get stuff off of it
>quickly like a disk.  Furthermore, I think
>all 3 of the major backup software packages
>I've seen are just too squirrely.  Finder is
>fine for full backups.

Sure is, if your running it by itself. As far as I know Finder does not
use the MultiFinder Temporary Memory, so if you havent changed the default
160k setting that Finder asks for, your not going to be able to copy large
directory structures or numbers of files. In either case your stuck to
waiting for the Finder to complete the job.

The system I have is based on the MPWv3.0 "Backup" tool. Each morning I 
backup 180Mb of server disk space onto a series of 4 Syquest cartriges.
The process takes about ten miniutes, and goes about its business in the 
background. While Im reading the news, MPW uses the notification manager to 
bring my attention to the script when a new disk is required. 

Ive been using this process for 11 months, and find the Syquest media
perfectly suited.

Peter Dodd.
 
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