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From: drew@cup.portal.com (Andrew E Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Backup via AppleTalk
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Date: 18 Nov 90 17:50:19 GMT
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re:  is it reasonable to backup 40MB disk over net using retrospect?

works fine.  no problem.
I use retrospect to back up my 40MB over phonenet (an appletalk implementation
) through gatorbox to unix server.  (gatorbox is the slow part of this).
Full backup of 30MB might take 1.5 or 2 hrs...but typical backup is only
a few minutes, since retropsect is incremental.
Besides, i've used the retrospect feature to let it backup unattended in
the middle of the night...so who cares?  :)
(btw -- i have compression on, which slows it, but i don't know how much)
-Drew Wade
drew@objy.com