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From: aberg@math.rutgers.edu (Hans Aberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Redux vs. Diskfit?
Keywords: Hard disk back up utility
Message-ID: <Apr.15.16.01.01.1989.23181@math.rutgers.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 89 20:01:02 GMT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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If you back up to floppies, the main advantages with DiskFit are that
it does not use a keydisk, and that the files are saved in Mac file 
format. That is, if you lose a disk, you can still retrive the files
on the other disks, and you can use standard Mac procedures to
retrieve it.

Redux use a key disk, and use its own file format. This is probably
much faster, and it enables a wide range of backup options, but if you
lose the keydisk, or the program gets into trouble with its own file
format, then you are out of luck.

Hans Aberg, Mathematics
aberg@math.rutgers.edu