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Re: Archiver reliability

Subject: Re: Archiver reliability
From: sbehrens@bigfoot.com (Sönke Behrens)
Date: 1998/01/07
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Nerd's Revolutionary Front
References: <3445669F.2DE5@library.ucla.edu> <Pine.SGI.3.91r.971015223944.8053C-100000@freenet> <344A6CAA.3B4D@library.ucla.edu>

>Take your Mac DAT drive to the GS, get GS Tape, and back up directly.
>This will get the job done in 1/4 of the time.

True. However, take one precaution:

After making the backup, restore a few random files from the
beginning, mid and end of the tape and see whether they match. A
nuisance, but since GSTape has no "Verify/Compare" feature, a
necessary one. I lost some data because I thought I had a backup ...

Sönke

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References:
- Archiver reliability
  - From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Re: Archiver reliability
  - From: "Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>
- Re: Archiver reliability
  - From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu

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