Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!net1!graifer From: graifer@net1.ucsd.edu (Dan Graifer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard Disk Backup Software -- Archiving vs. Backup Message-ID: <3503@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 14:30:12 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.3503 Posted: Wed Jul 22 14:30:12 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:08:26 EDT References: <23795@sun.uucp> <1306@sputnik.COM> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: graifer@net1.UUCP (Dan Graifer) Organization: UCSD Office of Academic Computing Lines: 34 Keywords: review DiskFit HFS Backup archive 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?