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From: jjwcmp@isc.rit.edu (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Apple Tape Backup
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.001325.16940@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 00:13:25 GMT
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In article <4476@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>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.


I read somewhere that Apple is now including a certificate for a free
(or $50) copy of Retrospect with their drives.

Jeff
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