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From: eachus@mbunix.mitre.org (Robert Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist (one among thousands!)
Summary: Use a disk backup program
Keywords: list, dir, pipe:, loadwb, docs, rad1:, locks, selection, huge disks
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Date: 2 Aug 89 23:37:08 GMT
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In article <12968@well.UUCP> xanthian@well.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>I work in a large ram, no HD: environment (Amiga 2000 with 9Mbytes, 2
>floppies).  It would be extremely nice if the large files I can now
>make in memory could be supported as multi-floppy-volume files.

     Sounds silly, but get a hard-disk backup program!  All of the
ones I am familiar with, including the PD ones, will backup to
multiple floppies without pre-partioning.  I won't recommend one,
since my situation is not yours, and my criteria are not yours.  (I do
my backups over an NFS connection, so I need a backup program which
uses the FS system on the target without counting on knowing too much
about it.)

     Only on the Amiga do you need a backup program for your ram-disk!

					Robert I. Eachus