[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Computer Math while backing up files

Posted: 1/28/2013 4:53:43 PM EDT

41, 795 is not 32% of 299852.

Plus, I think these machines are powered by anemic rodents, at this rate I'll be done about 8 hours from now.

Posted: 1/28/2013 4:55:37 PM EDT

[#1]

Windows backup? or something like Symantec backup exec?

Posted: 1/28/2013 4:58:16 PM EDT

[#2]

Windows machine, using software from some vendor I've never heard of.

Posted: 1/28/2013 5:00:58 PM EDT

[#3]

Percentage could be calculated on a per byte basis not per file basis.

Then again when's the last time one of those was accurate?

Posted: 1/28/2013 5:04:03 PM EDT

[#4]

What's really going to blow your mind is that the same guy who wrote that math probably wrote the privacy / security mechanisms for that entire app / network.

Posted: 1/28/2013 5:10:14 PM EDT

[#5]

The calculation might be file size based which is more accurate than the number of files. Of course, it should say that if it is the case.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Computer Math while backing up files

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Computer Math while backing up files

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Computer Math while backing up files