Re: Archiver reliability

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Robert Rivkin wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Greg J. Buchner wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
> > 
> > > How reliable is Archiver?
> > 
> > From personal experience, I'd say that Archiver is very unreliable.
> > 
> > Is there any other program that would allow me to do this, backing
> > up two ProDOS and one HFS volume unattended?

> The fastest and most reliable solution is to get a zip or other
> removable-cartridge drive and back up your partitions onto it.  It takes a
> few seconds to copy, and is always ready/bootable.

Yea, but this option takes $$$$...I'd prefer to have a software solution
that works with the hardware I already have before buying more hardware.

Currently, with my DAT drive on my Mac and backing up over localtalk,
it does take a bit of time, but computers are good at using time when
I'm sleeping.  As for the DAT tapes, they're cheaper than ZIP carts,
and hold a whole lot more (up to 4GB for my DAT vs. >100MB for a ZIP).

I'd much rather buy a program from a IIGS programmer and support him
than support Iomega.

Greg B.

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