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Disk space and file types used
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| Howard Kaikow 2006-01-02, 5:48 pm |
| To see how effective is the compression of a backup program, it is necessary
to know how many bytes are actually on the source drives to be backed up.
Over the years, I've needlessly wasted time starting My Computer and copying
the info into an Excel spreadsheet to determine disk use.
I finally got around to writing a quickie program to get the info.
See http://www.standards.com/index.html?GetDiskSpaceUsed.
Also, see http://www.standards.com/index.html...peDistribution.
Periodically, I may post updates to the programs described in this thread.
When I do, I will try to remember to modify the relevant HTML page to update
the program's version number, I will no longer announce such things here.
I did this last night for
http://www.standards.com/index.html...peDistribution.
So, if you encounter a problem, please first try the latest version before
reporting the problem.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
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| Howard Kaikow 2006-01-06, 2:54 am |
| I have update the program so it should word in Win 5, even without OSR2.
AFAIK, folkes have used the program with Windows XP, and I have used the
critter with Win 95 and Win 2000.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"Howard Kaikow" <kaikow@standards.com> wrote in message
news:dpbuu9$l5j$1@pyrite.mv.net...
> To see how effective is the compression of a backup program, it is
necessary
> to know how many bytes are actually on the source drives to be backed up.
>
> Over the years, I've needlessly wasted time starting My Computer and
copying
> the info into an Excel spreadsheet to determine disk use.
>
> I finally got around to writing a quickie program to get the info.
>
> See http://www.standards.com/index.html?GetDiskSpaceUsed.
>
> Also, see http://www.standards.com/index.html...peDistribution.
>
> Periodically, I may post updates to the programs described in this thread.
>
> When I do, I will try to remember to modify the relevant HTML page to
update
> the program's version number, I will no longer announce such things here.
>
> I did this last night for
> http://www.standards.com/index.html...peDistribution.
>
> So, if you encounter a problem, please first try the latest version before
> reporting the problem.
>
> --
> http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
>
>
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