Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!agate!bionet!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uwmcsd1!marque!lakesys!macak From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Archiving software Keywords: archive backup floppy Message-ID: <305@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 89 19:50:11 GMT References: <1219@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) Distribution: na Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 30 In article <1219@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John R. Delaney) writes: >I am looking for a program to maintain an archive of >files that would otherwise clutter up my HD20. I don't mean >a back-up program, although one with the right features >might be able to fill in if used right. Rather I have in mind >something like the UNIX TAR facility but with a better >(more Mac-like) way of checking what is in the archive, that >uses floppies as a medium, and that will ask only for needed >floppies (not all) when restoring or adding a file or folder. >Does such a such a program exist? There is a Mac HD backup program called "Redux" that may be what you are looking for. It allows you to check/uncheck folders and files to be backed up, and will remember how you set it up from session to session. I just bought Redux, though I have not had a chance to try it yet... Also, I believe that it will only ask for floppies that it needs during a backup, and it will (for certain) delete old versions of files during a backup so as to not require and forever increasing numbers of floppies for backups. Jim (Redux is from Microseeds Publishing, Inc., and I have no connection woth them.) -- Jim Macak