Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!ack From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Have you checked your backups lately? Message-ID: <13337@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 3 May 89 18:19:44 GMT Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) Organization: Kiewit Computation Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 33 [] I am using Redux to do my backups and have run into some strangeness. When I initially did the first backup, I had ALL FILES checked. Redux backed them all up. When it came time to do incrementals, Redux informed me that some of my files had changed. Well, I knew that the changes were insignificant, even useless (e.g., a file which had gotten nVIR and then had it removed *after* the initial backup) so I removed the check from these files. When I finally did need to do a restore, all of these files were gone. The question: When I meant to tell Redux "don't bother with the incremental on these files and just go with the originals" did Redux think I meant "ah, he wants to nuke these files from the backup set." If so, how can I get Redux to ignore files like those I mentioned above? Second question: What other backup programs are there which are comperable to Redux? Redux seems to always create larger and larger sets. When I had removed about 8 MB of junk from my HD and added ONE new large file (700K) the backupset GREW by one disk when (I thought) it should have shrunk by at least 6. Whose fault is that? Am I again not using it correctly? eMail replies, I'll post to the net if there is interest/news. -Thanks in advance -ajw Andy J. Williams '90 | | ack@dartvax.dartmouth.edu 31 North Main Street | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | Systems Programmer Hanover NH, 03755 | You kill -9 my ppid | Kiewit Computation Center 603-643-2177 | prepare to vi | Dartmouth College