Re: Flopticals and Prosel 16

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

In article <2pe64o$a16@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Auri Rahimzadeh) writes:
>: I backed up my HD file-by-file (onto flopticals, just copying files), then
>: repartitioned it into 20MB pieces (20256 blocks each) with the RamFAST
>: utilities.  Then I copied everything back on.
>
>Andy, wouldn't it have been easier just to use Archiver and tell it to
>back up to disks?

If you trust Archiver, I suppose it would. :-)  However, the partition
sizes I had before translated nicely into 20MB pieces, and since I only
had to do it once it didn't really matter.

>                   Also, you could compress the volume data, which would
>lessen the number of disks you need!

Gosh, compressing files... why didn't I think of that? :-)

(BUY HARDPRESSED!!)

>                                      Why repartition your hard drive when
>you don't have to?  Archiver makes it so easy to backup to multiple disks
>(no matter what size they are).

Because I can back up 80MB in 20 minutes.  It's just faster to do it with
a block copy than a file copy.  The RamFAST makes it less painful, but
it's still a LOT easier to just drag disks around.

>-Auri Man

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