[G4] Dantz Retrospect

[CJ Scaminaci]

Yes, Retrospect copies EVERYTHING on your volume, that doing a drag and 
drop normally wouldn't do. The reason Retrospect takes so long, is it's 
finding all the data, updating their permissions, copying and 
compressing them, then verifying that everything is correct. I have 
used retrospect since the very beginning and I absolutely love it. 
Wouldn't use anything but them.

CJ
On Dec 6, 2003, at 2:45 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now that I'm using it, why am I?
>
> What is the difference between backing up with Dantz Retrospect and
> just copying my whole hard drive over to the external drive?
>
> It seems to take a long time for Dantz to do a backup - still
> about an hour. I have 40 gigs to back up, 896 MB RAM,
> am using Firewire port.
>
> If I were doing plain copy, I would just drag over the
> document folders and leave the system and apps folders
> alone.
>
> Does Dantz take invisible files, is that it?
>
> I'm not trying to make a bootable drive, just to keep a current
> system and backup documents so I can copy things back after fixing
> a problem.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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