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From: Tom.Langseth@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Langseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I Back Up My Hard
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Date: 5 Jan 91 16:30:15 GMT
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Re:  Your question concerning (I think they call it VideoTrax) backup 
systems.  Last time I looked into this I realized that even tho it works 
and is less expensive than a SCSI tape drive (only if you don't have to 
buy the VCR, also), it is a pain to use.  First off, the software was 
years behind even Apple's ----- and the most important down side is that 
it takes 2 hours to back up 80 MB.  80 MB was the limit when I looked 
this thing over.  Even tho it is more costly, I went with a 150 MB tape 
and enjoy my backups at 6-8 MB per minute.  Then I can get on with life. 
 BTW, I have decided that a full backup (booting from a floppy), 
reinitialization and restoration is the best and quickest way to perform 
an effective compression and defrag operation.


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