Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!apple!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!steve From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How is SUM II's backup utility? Keywords: sum backup Message-ID: <1990Dec13.171639.7273@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 17:16:39 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In article rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes: #> #>I'm still trying to pick between SUM II and Norton, and wonder if #>anyone has any comments on SUM II's backup feature? In particular, #>does it allow backup in Finder format (non-compressed) like DiskFit #>does? #> #>Thanks! #> #>-Ralph #>rgonzal@chowder.rutgers.edu I've been following this discussion with interest since I've had SUM II for some time and recently got Norton. I don't find SUM II particularly hard to use. But then I haven't crashed a hard disk yet. I have used the SUM II backup. It doesn't give a choice. I don't think it compresses its backup. I just checked. It creates three files: a directory, a files file, and a small information file. The files file is slightly larger than the capacity of the hard disk I backed up, so I doubt that it is compressed. But I don't think you could access the contents of that file easily without using SUM II. I recently obtained Retrospect, which I mistakenly thought I needed to backup over a network (SUM II could have done it, too). My recollection is that Retrospect offers three choices, one of which is a backup as a straight copy, one is like SUM II, and one is compressed. Steve Goldfield