Re: Disk Muncher

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

MJMahon (mjmahon@aol.com) wrote:
: My guess is that everyone has already made up their mind
: about Disk Muncher, but...

: Digital data is frequently copied many times in the course of
: its use, and the design of _any_ copy utility should aim to
: perform copying _absolutely flawlessly_, within the limits
: of the technology.  This is why any copy program should,
: by default, read back copied data and verify that it is
: identical to the original if there is any possibility of an
: error (as there is on disk).

True.  But I imagine the value of the program is tempered by the actual use...

I used to use Disk Muncher quite a lot...not for making backup copies, but
for making distribution copies.  And if one of the copies failed...well,
we made another one.  "Distribution" in this case is the 1980's classroom
version of computer networking, so it's not like anyone had to go through
great difficulty to fix a blown copy.

Still, I don't remember any failures...

Oh, for my own backups of the era, I didn't use copy utilities...I used
redundant SAVEs instead.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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