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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: HD Backup problems
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Date: 30 Oct 89 19:50:34 GMT
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Earlier I requested recommendations for a hard-disk to floppy
backup program.  The overwhelming response was Quarterback.
It was described as reliable, fast, and friendly. I got
other recommendations: one respondant mentioned
Quikbackup (fish 249-254) as "more stable than MRBackup
or SuperBack", another (the author, actually)  recommended
SuperBack, and one recommended Backup/Restore by Matt Dillon,
which does compression and has many nice features and is on
the latest Fish release, and one has "heard that
Express Copy is pretty nice, too".

Quarterback (according to possibly reliable sources :-)
multitasks well and does not crash. It was described as
better than FastBack (for those in IBM land (like I used to be))
and better than MRBackup (which I must admit has gotten
much better). Quarterback is said to be up to version 2.2.

Thanks for all the responses (and fish :-).
It looks like if I can't get my tape drive working I'll
have to get Quarterback and start working with
those floppy-things again :-).  -- Darren