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From: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
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Subject: Transferring Redux backup sets between disks
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Date: 8 Mar 91 05:46:09 GMT
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Here's one I haven't seen before:

	Background:  I used to live with my parents.  I have a mac+ and a 
Mirror 45Mb removable ("new" Syquest mechanism) hard drive.  My parents 
bought themselves a blank disk to use with my drive, which they loaded up 
with all sorts of stuff (as parents are wont to do... :)

	I have since moved out, and I took my mac+ and hard drive with me.  
They have their own SE, but no hard drive.  They are interested in getting 
one, however.  Since I needed a new disk anyway, I took theirs after 
backing it up to floppies with Redux 1.62.

	Now the questions:  first, for the c.s.m.hardware folks, are there 
any compelling reasons *not* to buy a Mirror drive?  The latest price in 
MacUser is $617.  That's the one they're "used" to, and they'd sort of 
prefer to stay with that brand.  I doubt that they need a removable, but 
they're sold on that sort of drive.  Please don't try to convince me that 
they wouldn't need one.  I've already tried convincing them.  You know how 
parents are.  :)

	Second, for the c.s.m.apps folks, assuming that there is a good 
reason to get another drive, are there any problems transferring a Redux 
backup set from a particular brand of drive to another one?  There 
shouldn't be, since ideally the program shouldn't care what sort of drive 
I try to restore to, as long as it's big enough, but I'd like to hear it 
from someone who knows more about what they're talking about than I do.

	Thanks in advance!

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