What is Redux?

Backing up a hard disk is like buying insurance: it seems like a waste until you need it. Backup programs make the chore easier and faster. Even more important. they let you back up hies that wouldn’t ordinarily fit on an 800K disk. Redux almost succeeds in making backups fun.

Simple Backups

Redux begins by asking you to select a source volume (the drive you’re backing up from) and a target volume (the drive you're writing to). Once Redux knows the target’s capacity, it gives you an estimate of the number of volumes the backup will take. If all your hies can ht on one target volume, Redux lets you copy them in a Finder-readable format; otherwise, Redux saves them in a special format that only Redux understands. Any type of HFS-compatible storage device can serve as a target, including floppy drives, removable media, tape units, and hard disks.

The first time you back up a hard disk to floppies, Redux prompts you to insert disks until it has copied all the files. If you’re interrupted, you can pick up later where you left off. Although Redux runs under MultiFinder, this may be more trouble than it’s worth — for example, Microsoft Word’s response time dropped noticeably with Redux running in the background. Restoring a hard drive is as simple as feeding in backup disks when Redux prompts you.

Tessler, Franklin. (September 1988). Almost Fun Backups. Macworld. (pg. 226).

Download Redux for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

• Version 1.01 Requirements
  • Macintosh 512KE or later

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac