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From: graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer)
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Subject: Re: Hard Disk Backup Software -- Archiving vs. Backup
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Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 14:30:12 EDT
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In article <1306@sputnik.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>... For "backup", I am using
>SuperMac's DiskFit program; and I must tell you that this is quite possibly
>THE ultimate backup program for floppy backup.

Agreed, It works great, is fast, and is as reliable as the finder.  Since it
clearly knows where files are in the backup set, it would be nice to have a
"find file" feature, but it's not critical.

>... For archiving purposes, I am using
>HFS Backup 2.01, which I am fairly pleased with,...
>                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

I recently came up with a new scheme for archival storage.  I am using the
d'Librarian application that was posted on the net recently.  I just keep
a couple of sets of archive disks:  ie.  Personal Letters Archive 1...n,
Client X 1...m.   When I want to archive something, I copy it to the first
large enough blank area on the approprate archive set, then run the set 
through d"librarian.  The current version of d'Librarian wont sort by file,
but since I've subdivided disks by topic, I only have to check the half dozen
disks it's likely to be on.  Note that I do this on d'Librarian's info file,
not by plugging disks into the drive.  Once archived, I trash the files,
and Diskfit recovers the space on the backup set.  I like this technique
because, like Diskfit, the files are stored in Finder format.  If I loose the
current archive catalogue, I just run all the files through d'Librarian again
and build a new one.  With about 50 disks, this takes ~20 minutes.   I haven't
had to archive a file >800K yet, but what I intend to do is archive the split
backups that Diskfit creates!

Hope this helps everyone out there manage their drives.

                              Dan Graifer
                              graifer@net1.UCSD.EDU
Disclaimer: Nobody ever listens to me anyways; Why should they start now?