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- From: stockamp@ztivax.UUCP (Klaus Stockamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: HDBackup/BRU
- Message-ID: <12877@ztivax.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 06:26:29 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.160727.4775@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Organization: Siemens AG, Munich, W-Germany
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- charro@ee.ualberta.ca writes:
- >WB2.05. I can't remember the exact numbers, but if I want to back up
- >90 Megs or so of data, it will take approximately 120 Megs of storage
- >space on floppies. Surely 30 Megs isn't used up in header
- >information! I haven't done a backup yet, believing I am doing
- >something wrong somewhere. If anyone has any advice on what I am
- >doing wrong, or (gasp) advice telling me that that is the way
- >HDBackup/BRU is supposed to work for any reason, I'd love to hear
- >about it.
-
- Forget HDBackup!
- I've the same problems like you. HDBackup requires 30% more Floppy-Disk-
- Space than QuarterBack (or 40% ?).
- Sometimes I run Quarterback under 2.04 and I have no problems with it.
- (I use only the V2.0 QuarterBack...).
-
- Hope, this helps you...
-
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