#dos 6 compression
18-Aug-93 23:34:34
Sb: #dos 6 compression
Fm: merlin farmer 74650,1164
To: MARTIN G FOSTER 70303,456
I have heard bad things of the Stacker problem before. I have always
been paranoid of compression. My first depressed compression
depression came from when I was using compression on my backups and
my backup FAT got scrambled when I went to reinstall after a crash.
Man I was sick. Since then, all of my back-ups have been of the file
by file nature.
I did indeed get brave with DOS 6.0 and the dblspace routine. Hard
pressed for space, I gambled it. I have a WD CAVIAR2000 213 mb hard
drive. It is now 400 Mb using dblspace. As you mention though, there
does seem to be extra maintnance regarding defragmentation, it has to
be done often and it takes a long long time. That always scares the
gee-whilickers? out of me as well because during the defrag process,
all it takes is a good brown out and you can kiss it all good by and
just start reinstalling
I will have to purchase a UPS just to keep my sanity I believe.
Merlin