delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John R. Delaney) (01/18/89)
I am looking for a program to maintain an archive of files that would otherwise clutter up my HD20. I don't mean a back-up program, although one with the right features might be able to fill in if used right. Rather I have in mind something like the UNIX TAR facility but with a better (more Mac-like) way of checking what is in the archive, that uses floppies as a medium, and that will ask only for needed floppies (not all) when restoring or adding a file or folder. Does such a such a program exist? John
macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) (01/20/89)
In article <1219@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (John R. Delaney) writes: >I am looking for a program to maintain an archive of >files that would otherwise clutter up my HD20. I don't mean >a back-up program, although one with the right features >might be able to fill in if used right. Rather I have in mind >something like the UNIX TAR facility but with a better >(more Mac-like) way of checking what is in the archive, that >uses floppies as a medium, and that will ask only for needed >floppies (not all) when restoring or adding a file or folder. >Does such a such a program exist? There is a Mac HD backup program called "Redux" that may be what you are looking for. It allows you to check/uncheck folders and files to be backed up, and will remember how you set it up from session to session. I just bought Redux, though I have not had a chance to try it yet... Also, I believe that it will only ask for floppies that it needs during a backup, and it will (for certain) delete old versions of files during a backup so as to not require and forever increasing numbers of floppies for backups. Jim (Redux is from Microseeds Publishing, Inc., and I have no connection woth them.) -- Jim Macak <lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu>