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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: IS XPK SAFE?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183841.6546@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:38:41 GMT
- References: <Bxnwv6.At@javelin.sim.es.com> <1992Nov15.194207.7894@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
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- Quoth umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller):
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- ]> Author speaking... It is very valid to ask for XPK's safety. Genreally, XPK
-
- ]> >5. Do you back up your data in the compressed format?
- ]>
- ]> If you mean backuping the underlying DH3: instead of XFH:, then certainly.
- ]> If you mean compressing before backuping, there's only one program that
- ]> does it so far: KwikBackup. I would probably use compression if the backup
- ]> drive is slow and the CPU is fast. Good backup programs should offer a
- ]> verify mode in that re-reads and re-decompresses, and they should work
- ]> with independent chunks so a read error doesn't trash the whole disk.
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- Now *I'm* a little confused! :-) Um, I was assuming that by "backing up"
- the hard drive partition meant archiving the data onto other media for
- recovery if anything, um, unpleasant happend to the partition. In that
- case, at least 3 backup programs I am familiar with (QuarterBack 5, AmiBack 2,
- and MRBackup 1.12) support compressed backups. However, now I'm not quite
- sure that we're talking about the same thing...
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