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From: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DiskFit VS Redux: My DEFINITE conclusion
Message-ID: <1074@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 19:13:26 GMT
References: <1988Oct4.162537.8158@mntgfx.mentor.com> <1988Oct5.085923.97@mn <9937@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <9937@cup.portal.com> Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com writes:
>Just to throw in my 2 cents here, I just finshed backing up my 140 meg Jasmine
>with Redux 1.01 after I restored it with FastBack after, I beleive, the latest
>SUM bug fix trashed the HD so bad that even SUM could not bring it back....
>
>Well, Redux is VERY nice, and A LOT more powerful than FastBack 1.02, but, and
>this a big but when it comes to backing up, the same HD (obviousy, and all the
>same files) took Redux THREE HOURS!!! to backup.  The same HD took FastBack
>88 minutes....  Quite a difference.  I should also point out that Redux took
>102 disks to FastBack's 123 (including catalog disk).  Looks like FastBack is
> ...

	But what's 21 disks when it comes to time and information.  For those
of us who Join a User Group large enough to have a store with generic disk, the
price per disk is as low as $1.05.  Is < $23 worth the hour and a half you will
save using FastBack?.  

Bruce Hoof
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