Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-16 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Wed 16-Jul-03 5:15pm -0400, Greg Strong wrote: > Well I'll have to back and look at your settings to see if I can set > something up to track. It would be interesting. For a reference here's the command to compress my main mail store with 7z and zip (redirection for 4nt): 7zn u -ms=off -

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-16 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Bill, Wednesday, July 16, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: > As you can see, 7z doesn't come close to zip in speed. On my > relatively slow machine (with nearly 100 gig free disk space), I'm > considering switching back to zip with the -1 option for TB backups. Well I'll have to back and look a

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-16 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Tue 15-Jul-03 10:35pm -0400, Greg Strong wrote: > What is the size of the source files you are backing up, and how long is > it taking? The "used" space is about 75 meg. Compressed is about 15 meg. There are 827 files. On my 800 mhz P-III it updates in about 80 seconds. The builtin TB back

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-15 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Bill, Tuesday, July 15, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: > :: And now display the results in my editor What is the size of the source files you are backing up, and how long is it taking? I have been using 7-Zip for 6 months manually with the GUI. Now with investigating the command line capabili

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-15 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Tue 15-Jul-03 7:07pm -0400, Greg Strong wrote: > Tuesday, July 15, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: >> So don't specify a new archive and p0q0 is equivalent to p1q1. > NO, not when you consider what my INTENT on the backup was. See > mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] My test the other day must have been wrong

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-15 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Bill, Tuesday, July 15, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: > So don't specify a new archive and p0q0 is equivalent to p1q1. NO, not when you consider what my INTENT on the backup was. See mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ,- [ Quote: ] | I wanted to address the possibilities with the INTENT of keeping my

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-15 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Tue 15-Jul-03 1:08am -0400, Greg Strong wrote: > Monday, July 14, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: >>> 7za u -ms=off x:\TBArchives\tbMail7z.7z -up0q0r2x1y2z1w2 >>> "AppsBase\MAIL\*" -r >> Why use 7za? From the manual, "7zn.exe and 7zan.exe are optimized >> versions of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for execut

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-15 Thread MAU
Hello Greg, > Since this is going OT see my reply off list. :-) Not really OT. TB is probably the kulu ngile MUA in the world :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.62i Current version is 1.62r | "Using TB

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Urban, Monday, July 14, 2003, Urban Urban wrote: >> So if your interested in incorporating the use of 7-Zip into your >> backup procedures of TB, the batch file I created is below. > Thanks, worked like a charm. You are welcome. -- Best regards, Greg Strong TB! v1.

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Bill, Monday, July 14, 2003, Bill McCarthy wrote: >> 7za u -ms=off x:\TBArchives\tbMail7z.7z -up0q0r2x1y2z1w2 >> "AppsBase\MAIL\*" -r > Why use 7za? From the manual, "7zn.exe and 7zan.exe are optimized > versions of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for execution on Windows NT/2000/XP." > Aren't you run

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Urban
Sunday, July 13, 2003, Greg Strong wrote: > So if your interested in incorporating the use of 7-Zip into your > backup procedures of TB, the batch file I created is below. Thanks, worked like a charm. -- Urban Current version is 1.62r | "Using T

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sun 13-Jul-03 5:59pm -0400, Greg Strong wrote: > 7za u -ms=off x:\TBArchives\tbMail7z.7z -up0q0r2x1y2z1w2 "AppsBase\MAIL\*" -r Why use 7za? From the manual, "7zn.exe and 7zan.exe are optimized versions of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for execution on Windows NT/2000/XP." Aren't you running XP? Also, w

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Greg Strong
Hello MAU, Monday, July 14, 2003, MAU wrote: >> BTW some day I'm going to have to ship you some beer in Spain. Any >> special brands/types. > The probably kulu ngile one in the world will do ;-) Since this is going OT see my reply off list. :-) -- Best regards, Greg Strong

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread MAU
Hello Greg, > Monday, July 14, 2003, MAU MAU wrote: Only one MAU should do ;-) > I'm satisfied with what I got. You also were satisfied with VA, weren't you? ;-) Now seriously. That is exactly why I don't want to give you reasons to use Second Copy 2000. I decided to do this months ago, I sugg

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Greg Strong
Hello MAU, Monday, July 14, 2003, MAU MAU wrote: >>> You've never tried Second Copy 2000, have you? >> No. What benefit is there to it? > Ha! You will have to decide for yourself if there is any benefit for > you. There is for me, but YMMV :) I hear you! What can I say? I'm satisfied with what

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread MAU
Hello Greg, >> You've never tried Second Copy 2000, have you? > > No. What benefit is there to it? Ha! You will have to decide for yourself if there is any benefit for you. There is for me, but YMMV :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.62i _

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread Greg Strong
Hello MAU, Monday, July 14, 2003, MAU MAU wrote: > You've never tried Second Copy 2000, have you? No. What benefit is there to it? Like I said up to now I just relied on ghosting the partition to a 2nd HD on the PC. It was quick, painless, and I already owned Ghost. The only problem was if I eve

Re: Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-14 Thread MAU
Hello Greg, > In the past Allie has posted a batch program to completely backup TB > registry, program, and mail base files with WinRAR. You've never tried Second Copy 2000, have you? -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.62i __

Cost Effective TB Backup!

2003-07-13 Thread Greg Strong
Hello All, In the past Allie has posted a batch program to completely backup TB registry, program, and mail base files with WinRAR. I never forgot the message. Since I have a HD to ghost images too, I never really investigated further because I felt this was sufficient backup. The only problem is