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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BackupST limitations?
Message-ID: <22749@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 91 13:22:43 GMT
References: <1991Jan12.172310.25325@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Jan17.045644.26945@actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <1991Jan17.045644.26945@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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>George Woodside has uploaded Turtle to Genie over Xmas, I did not see
>what version it is as I can't use it, It requires at least 2 megs of ram
>for me to work, that is for a 800k ram disk, have you tried Vault ???
>or the Meg a Minute by Dave Small from Start Mag...

You must have a rather complex set up. Turtle is designed to run in
1 meg systems, since that's all I have. I also back up entirely on 800K
disks.

You can help relieve a cramped system by placing the RAMdisk in your
auto folder, rather than allow Turtle to install it. It does use less
memory that way. The RAMdisk is a normal and fully functional one
which I use al the time as a fast scratch drive. It does not, however,
do any autoloading of files at boot time.

If you do use the RAMdisk in your auto folder, you'll need to set the
proper configuration when you want to back up. Hold down either shift
key when the boot process approaches the RAMdisk. If a shift key is down
when the program starts up, it will present a configuration menu.

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