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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.apps
From: Jerry Kindall <kind...@mail.manual.com>
Date: 1999/07/09
Subject: Re: Using Retrospect:two questions
In article <378635DF.7B5F8...@history.umass.edu>, "Mario S. De Pillis"
<depil...@history.umass.edu> wrote: I have to agree -- Retrospect _could_ be easier to use. On the other > Thanks once again to Jerry Kindall for further elucidation. > At the same time I wish to express my complete agreement with Andy hand, it _is_ incredibly flexible if you need that power. The problem is the UI design philosophy. When you slap what a user interface designed to simplify things (e.g. EasyScript) onto an already complicated program, you're not making it simpler. Complex + Simple = Even more complex. > It loves dialogue boxes. It like compression Actually, they're a holdover from tape. If you think of Retrospect as a > schemes. It likes automatic processes like naming a "set" by changing > one's volume name by adding a "1-" in front of it. (Retro's "storage > sets" are apparently an intellectual holdover from the days when one > used 70 floppies and are, IMHO, not a very intuitive way of > differentiating different archives or versions of a backup.) very good tape backup system that treats all other kinds of media as if they were tapes, you won't be far off the mark. -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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