Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!brian
From: brian@jtsv16.UUCP (Brian A. Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard Drive Backup Software
Message-ID: <1240@jtsv16.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 03:07:19 GMT
Organization: JTS Computer Systems Ltd., ON, Canada
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'Lo, folks!

A while back, I posted a query about A590 drives.  Well, the matter has
since become quite obsolete for me.  At the World of Commodore Show here
in Toronto on Sunday, I bought a 30 Mb SCSI SupraDrive Hard Disk and
Controller.  Ah, how sweet it is!  Beats the hell out of swapping floppies
constantly!

I've noticed that while downloading with a couple of comm programs directly
to the hard drive, the program reports block timing errors every 6 K or
so and eventually fails.  And then the programs lock up the machine with
a pretty impressive guru.  I neglected to jot down the exact guru message,
but I'll see about getting that together later.  Any ideas where I should
look?  For what its worth, I'm running a 500 with 1.3 Workbench and 1.2
ROMs.  I'll be getting the 1.3 ROMs sometime in the next week so I can
finally do away with my boot floppy.

The other query for the net is about backup software.  Does anyone have
any recommendations for a good backup program which:
1)  allows backing up and restoring specific files, as well as
    directories and drives;
2)  allows optional file compression;
3)  allows support for different media (ie floppies, SCSI tapes, etc.);
4)  works?

The last item is a reflection of a posting I noticed a couple of weeks
back about a person who went to restore his hard drive and found, to his
utter horror, that the "backup" floppies were all nulled.

So, any preferences?

Brian

-- 
Brian A. Jarvis,                        J.T.S. Computer Systems,
brian@jtsv16.jts.com,                   Downsview, Ontario
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