Have you tried different compression settings with your DOS Zip
software?  Since you're trying to backup to a destination with sufficient
size to hold everything without compression, you can turn it off with a
command line switch to speed up the process (try pkzip -e0 ...) and
running the DOS version with the PC booted to DOS (not Windows) will run
the fastest.  For info. on all of the various command line switches, type
pkzip -h.

-JOWj.

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, The Doc wrote:

> I have a portable 3 gig hard drive that connects to the parallel port of
> the IBM 760E (with 3 gig HD) that I want to use for backup. I have tried a
> straight copy, and zipping the files but these methods are too slow for the
> port.  I downloaded a Demo copy of Symantec's Ghost software for trial use.
>  I set it on FAST compression and it would copy the entire 1+ gig of data
> in less than 20 minutes.  The documentation stated that the registered copy
> had file manager style program which would allow restoring of individual
> files in addition to a full disk image.
>
> I thought that I had found the ideal solution for my backups.  *But* when I
> called to order it, Symantec now will not sell less than a 10 license copy
> for 3 figure (US) price.  I don't need a single copy that badly.
>
> Has anyone used a software package that will give respectable speed in
> copying through a parallel port and will allow recovery of a single file?
> I have tried zipping (DOS and WinZip) to the parallel port drive and it
> takes forever if the system doesn't run out of resources first. Anything
> else out there that will do this job?
>

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