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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request for hard disk backup info
Message-ID: <6006@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 18:01:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 18:01:24 1987
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In article <517@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
...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...
...
...-Fred

If Jim Becker is out there somewhere I bet he is laughing now, this is
exactly the same argument that I got from him and Cmcmanis.  My claim
is that if you are worried about getting files back that you have 
deleted weeks ago all you need to do is keep more than one save set.
I would do this anyway if I was running BRU.  The advantages of my method
are than when I am restoring I don't have all those millions of files
that I deleted (like net news) automagically come back to haunt me.  I 
restore the hard disk from floppies that are an image of my hard disk from
the last time I did an incremental.  Also have the advantage that if I 
crash during the backup or restore I don't have to start from the beginning,
I just pickup where I left off, no archive bit setting or nothing.

I want to thank Scott Norton for replying to my message about look and
feel lawsuits, and to thank Andy Finkel for sending me the new hard
disk controller driver, and let them both know that their messages
were eaten by my Sun running out of swap space and disconnecting me
during my reading mail.  Thanks anyway guys... 

Sure is damn difficult doing the new Infinity logo in ASCII...
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