In a message dated 9/20/01 6:53:05 PM, harryjb at bellsouth.net writes:
>Mostly. Will REDUX back up over a network?
I don't know because I never tried it, and cannot easily.
Have you ever used retrospect? If so, why REDUX over retrospect or
retrospect express?
I used Retrospect when I was a working stiff but I found it too complex (or
should I say too capable) for what I wanted to do. Also, the cost was/is
greater than REDUX. I find that the more capabilities a program has (whether
you use them or not), they tend to be slower and less stable than a "minimal"
program like REDUX.
>
>Is the sum total of your 8 partitions less than or equal to 40 gb? Does
>the program compress the files as it writes them to the firewire drive or are
>your backups all uncompressed?
My Firewire partitions are slightly larger than the SCSI ones (FW 3.0 gig for
a 2.6 gig SCSI) and I select to use a non-compressed format, not a
proprietary REDUX one which is faster and MAY involve compression (I'm not
sure, never used it)
>
>Also, when you say all backups are in a finder format, I'm not sure what
that means.
Finder format means non-compressed and you can "look" at the Firewire backup
partition in the finder and see and exact duplicate of the SCSI partition
backed up. That way you can select a single file, if desired, and drag it to
the main (SCSI) partition if necessary to replace a single corrupted file.
Regards,
-=Mike=-
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