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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskFit VS Redux: My DEFINITE conclusion
Summary: Finder Format is Important!
Keywords: diskfit redux backup
Message-ID: <117@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 12 Oct 88 21:43:09 GMT
References: <1988Oct4.162537.8158@mntgfx.mentor.com> <1988Oct5.085923.97@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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The basic purpose of backing up your hard disk is recovery of your
files should you crash, or have a hardware problem. The merits of having
a slew of backup options such as Redux provides is worthless if the
backup will NOT restore your data when you need it. If you should
damage the directory of the Redux backup, its useless. And you can
have one really useless backup. This will NOT happen with Diskfit.
The very worst that can happen with DiskFit is you wind up Finder
copying your files back to your Hard disk, With Redux you have the
chance of losing the whole backup. I really wish Backup software
authors would realize the importance of leaving file formats alone.
Its to easy to flush a Redux backup down the drain, and I know
a couple people that have done it already. The ability to have a
multitude of ways to backup your data is worthless if the integrity
of the backup cannot be maintained. Its also to me would be a major
pain to insert a slew of floppies, even for 5 seconds if all the backup
set really needed was 2 or 3 disks of the set to update files that
really changed. I think that if DiskFit ever expands the backup options
and maintains the backup integrity as it does now...it will be the best
and in comparison to Redux, it still is....