Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!garfield!leif!noelroy From: noelroy@kean.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: backup programs Message-ID: <13937@kean.mun.ca> Date: 30 Aug 89 13:36:10 GMT References: <44566@bbn.COM> <1989Aug28.094152.12349@ziebmef.mef.org> <19248@gryphon.COM> Organization: Computing Services, Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada Lines: 49 In article <19248@gryphon.COM>, mhnadel@gryphon.COM (Miriam Nadel) writes: > In article <1989Aug28.094152.12349@ziebmef.mef.org> stephen@ziebmef.mef.org (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: >>In article <44566@bbn.COM> akhanna@BBN.COM () writes: >>>Any recommendations for hard-disk backup programs, especially those >>>that support incremental backup? >> >> One program to think about is PCTools PCBackup. I've been using this >>program recently and have been quite satisfied by it. (I don't use it for >>incremental backups, but it does do them ... I just can't comment >>on how it works. >> > I've used it for incremental backups and found that it works quite well. > There are a number of options on how to specify which files to back up. > If you specify things like "everything that's changed since such and such a > date" it's straightforward; I've seen people have problems trying to figure out > how to backup just a few files (though it can be done.) > Overall, PCTools is a nice package. I don't know anyone who has had > significant trouble with it. It's also very reasonably priced. > > Miriam Nadel > -- > One of the 32% of Americans who like to take chances. > > mhnadel@gryphon.COM !gryphon!mhnadel nadel@aspen.aero.org While I like PC_Tools very much for total backups, I find the incremental backup facility awkward. The backup.logs are placed on the final diskette of the incremental backup, and apparently cannot be concatenated into a master log file. So, finding a particular file to restore becomes a matter of slipping directory diskettes into the drive until you finally find what you are looking for. Or am I missing something here? _________________________________________________________________________ | | | Dr. Noel Roy | | Room A3048 Phone (709) 737-8245/8 | | Department of Economics FAX (709) 737-4569 | | Memorial University of Newfoundland | | St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 Canada | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | bitnet: NOELROY@MUN | | internet: noelroy%kean.mun.ca@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu | | cdnnet: noelroy@kean.mun.cdn | | uunet: noelroy@munucs.UUCP | | o o | | icbmnet: lat 47 34'6"N long 52 44'8"W alt 69m | |_______________________________________________________________________|