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- From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
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- Subject: Re: Retrospect Question
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:39:09 GMT
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- In <728024516.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> Ladd.Morse@p804.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ladd Morse) writes:
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- >Any idea if one can do an initial comprehensive backup to tape, then do
- >incremental backups to floppy?
- >
- >I've recently gotten a large hard drive at home and at work we have a DAT tape
- >drive. I was wondering if I could take the external drive to work, back up the
- >entire drive, then perform incremental backups at home to floppy.
-
- You couldn't do it with the same archive. Retrospect ties each one to a
- specific media type. But you could have a backup archive on DAT that
- automatically resets and does a comprehensive backup each time you use it
- and have an incremental archive on disk at home that is based on
- modification dates.
-
- Not perfect but functional.
-
- -Geoff
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