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From: cckweiss@castor
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Subject: Re: Backup to Syquest?
Summary: Don't need no stinking software
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Date: 8 Oct 90 16:18:13 GMT
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Someone asks what backup software to use with a Syquest removable hard
disk.

I use a sophisticated backup software package from Apple Computer called
the Finder. Just make sure you're not in Multifinder (lest you get a
'Finder out of memory' message) lasso 40 Megs of stuff, and drag it over
to the Syquest.

There is an overwhelming advantage to using this strategy as opposed to
a file-splitting or compressing dedicated backup program. When do you
need a backup? When your hard drive dies! When my Quantum 105 had to go
away for replacement, I ran my business for three weeks directly off my
Syquest backups. If you use a Finder copy to back up your files, you
have direct access to them, on a 20ms hard disk. All I had to do was
install Systems onto all my carts, and do a bit of data file swapping
via HD floppies, and I could work almost as easily as if my Q105 was
still there.

Ken Weiss
krweiss@ucdavis.edu