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From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
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Subject: Re: Sony Disks, and What do you need fo
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DiskFit is a reasonable hard disk backup program, but leaves a lot to be
desired.

>>How many disks do you think 60meg would take (I'll be backing up to floppy)?

A formatted floppy has 785K and you probably won't get better than about 97%
(761K) utilization.  So, (60 * 1024) / 761 = 81 floppy disks.

>By the way, you only have to feed all those diskettes in when you do a full
>backup of the disk.  For an incremental backup, DiskFit just asks for a few
>of them (depending on what's changed on your disk -- it records deletions as
>well as additions and changes, so that your backup set is always current.)

DiskFit often asks for more than a few disks, unless you backup very often.
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