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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Backup
Message-ID: <4476@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 14:32:29 GMT
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Organization: Symantec Language Products Group
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In article <2652@speedy.mcnc.org> kk@mcnc.org.UUCP (Krzysztof Kozminski) writes:
>One quick question: does anybody know if there are any technical
>reasons causing the Apple Tape Backup to be so sloooooooooooooow, or is
>it just a case of lousy software supplied with the hardware ?

	DC-2000 drives are intrinsically pretty slow, but in this case,
it's just lousy software. I use Retrospect with an Apple Tape backup
40SC, and I can back up about 50MB of data, with compression, in
just over half an hour.

R.



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