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From: Bruce.Hoult@actrix.co.nz (Bruce Hoult)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Backup via AppleTalk
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.165849.5446@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 18 Nov 90 16:58:49 GMT
References: <9683@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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Comment-To: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU

In article <9683@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>   We wish to use a tape drive and Retrospect to do the backup, but I was
> wondering whether LocalTalk produces completely unreasonably slow (>8 hours)
> results for a 40 MB hard disk.
> 
> -- Mark Wilkins

No sweat.  We backup our 210 meg AppleShare server over LocalTalk and it takes
a lot less than 8 hours.  I'm not sure exactly how long, but I think we get
somewhere between a meg and 1.5 megs a minute -- i.e. your 40 meg disk would
probably take 25 to 40 minutes to backup.