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From: mlelstv@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive backup programs
Message-ID: <3002@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 16 Jul 90 09:37:59 GMT
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wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:

>In article <23201@snow-white.udel.EDU> kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma) says:

>> I have been using the newer (but I think there's an even newer ver 4.0) ver
>> of MRBackup, and have been very pleased with it.  It uses a unix-like
>> compress utility to do compression.
>Yes, but does it still use the normal Amiga file system? I just don't want
>to wait 10 minutes for one disk being filled!

I takes about 1.5 minutes to fill a disk through the file system
and about 50 seconds to do it through the disk driver (aka trackdisk.device).
It is a little slower (<2.5 minutes) if you do not add more disk buffers
to the file system.

Michael van Elst
p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de