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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:43:29 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Drive Image Backups

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In <3D48C076.B1CE3508@attglobal.net>, on 07/31/02
at 09:00 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>Incidently, I do not understand your response, below. Compression should
>do exactly the opposite of what you stated. In Back Again 2000 you use
>compression during the backup to get more data in a smaller file. The
>resulting backup file is smaller than what you backed up. Compression
>takes longer to complete, however.

I think what Peter meant is that the .DAT container could exceed 2GB.
With XCOPY, this can't happen because there is no container.

To me, it appears that BA2K does I/O much more effeciently than XCOPY, so
even without compression, BA2K will be faster.

If I had Peter's 2GB problem, what I would do is write some REXX code to
build the .set files on the fly. This could ensure that the container did
not exceed 2GB.

Steven

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