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From: dtw@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Duane Williams)
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Subject: Re: DISKFIT -- (Was Re: Fastback --- GARBAGE ALERT)
Keywords: Diskfit, MacWorld survey
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Date: 23 Jan 88 23:27:02 GMT
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| P.S.  In the comparative survey, DiskFit is the only onw that has no "Cons"
| in the author's opinion.  This is not the case for the other backup utilities
| that were reviewed.

There were no "Cons" mentioned, but there should have been.  I think that
Diskfit is a fine program and I would recommend it to anyone, but it is not
the ideal backup program.

Diskfit does not perform selective file restores.  To get a single file back
you have to read the text file "Diskfit Report", find out which of your
disks contains the file you want, and copy the file with the Finder.  Other
backup programs in the MacWorld comparative survey do perform selective file
restores; so its absence in Diskfit should have been listed as a "Con".

Diskfit tries to minimize the number of floppies you need to keep a complete
backup of the current state of your hard disk.  Sometimes this conflicts
with the user's desire to minimize the time involved in doing backups.  It
can be very annoying to have to mount a floppy just so that Diskfit can
stuff a single small file into some unused space, while you know that there
is plenty of room for that file and others on the last disk in the set.