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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: ZIP Drive and Backup Software
- Date: 21 Mar 96 15:35:29 +0500
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- On or about 21-Mar-96 11:30:51 David M. Ingebretsen typed the following words
- about "Re: ZIP Drive and Backup Software". My reply is thus...
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- Hi David,
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- DMI> Laurens van Klaveren wrote:
- >>
- >> >What backup software are people using with their ZIP Drives? I've tried
- >> >ABackup, but it just stops backing stuff up once the first disk is full.
- >>
- >> I prefer the "copy" command. :-)
- >>
- >> Why do you want to use backup software with the ZIP?
- >>
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- DMI> I use AmiBack and it works very nicely. I want to use backup software
- DMI> because it can automatically compress the data, and fills each disk to
- DMI> its max. It also creates a backup log of all the files automatically. It
- DMI> is also easier to do incremental backups of just those files that have
- DMI> been changed.
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- I also use AmiBack with *NO* problems. You can get close to 300 Megs on two
- ZIP disks with compression.
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