I dont understand, you need:
- one time backup
- a scheduled backup
???

Dr Skip wrote:
> It does really help, especially in getting the efficiency of large files rather 
> than millions of little ones. The original test 60GB compresses down to 21GB so 
> far, without special compression values. 1 TB here costs $200 (US) and change, 
> and I have several TB to back up, with a mind towards doing it right some day 
> and having at least 2 full backups somewhere at any given time. ;)
>
> At those rates, it would also speed up the network transfer by up to 3x if 
> transferring to a drive on the net, as I would assume the processing is much 
> faster than the I/O. Moving terabytes has made for loooong backup times.
>
> 7zip has turned out to be the most reliable, and in fact has a tar mode, but 
> zip seems to work fine so far. It had some oddities though: In the shell, *.* 
> will include everything. In 7z, *.* includes only those things with a '.', 
> which is understandable. '*' is the proper form. However, if I had a folder 
> such as c:\temp and backed it up as C:\temp\ without any wildcards, it would 
> zip up every occurrence where a directory was named temp into that zipfile, no 
> matter how deep it was somewhere else. Interesting redundancy...
>
> -Skip
>
>
> Apptech wrote:
>   
>> How critical is the need for ZIP files?
>> With modern disk costs plummeting the savings are not liable 
>> to be vast in many cases unless there is very substantial 
>> quantities of data involved.
>> SATA seems to be approaching $US0.15/GB here at best size 
>> and that will probably be under $US0.10/GB before long.
>>
>> That will be $10/100 GB and $100/TB ! :-). Down from the 
>> $20,000/GB or so when I bought my first HDD - several times 
>> that in real terms. Few other things I've bought have even 
>> come down in price by a factor of 200,000+ in my lifetime 
>> :-).
>>
>>
>>         Russell 
>>
>>     

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