Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!indri!polyslo!csun!mx!cbcscavc From: mx!cbcscavc@csun.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Redux vs. Diskfit? Keywords: Hard disk back up utility Message-ID: <2096@csun.edu> Date: 22 Apr 89 22:06:47 GMT References: <7763@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@csun.edu Reply-To: cbcscavc@mx.csun.edu (Aviram Carmi) Organization: CSU, Northridge School of Engineering & Computer Science Lines: 19 In article aberg@math.rutgers.edu (Hans Aberg) writes: + (stuff about DiskFit edited) +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 Version 1.5 of Redux has much improved handling of missing disks including rebuilding the directory file if the first disk is damaged or lost. You can also look at the directory for any backup set and have multiple named backup sets. They had also improved the scripting language, so that Redux is now even more flexible. Just a very satisfied user, Aviram Carmi (cbcscavc@mx.csun.edu)