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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request for hard disk backup info
Message-ID: <517@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 10:27:25 EST
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.517
Posted: Thu Nov 19 10:27:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 15:52:07 EST
References: <5958@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <5958@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes:
>	[list of features of Mac DiskFit backup utility]
>
>	Instead of incremental, it makes another list of
>	the files on the hard disk and compares that to the
>	files saved to the floppies and deletes files from 
>	the floppies and saves new files, thus incrementals
>	take five minutes and you get a full backup worth of
>	disks.

So as soon as I (intentionally or otherwise) delete a file from my
hard disk it automagically gets deleted from my full backup the next
time I do an incremental backup???   This sounds like a disaster waiting
to happen...

I can see some justification for the "converse" of this, deleting files
on the hard disk which have also been deleted between backup A and backup
B, while doing successive restores from backup A then backup B, as long as
the files are still in backup A so I can get them back again if necessary.

-Fred
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