Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!jspear From: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Backup Utility Recommendations... Message-ID: <24983@gryphon.COM> Date: 19 Jan 90 15:20:50 GMT References: <1268@husc6.harvard.edu> Reply-To: jspear@gryphon.COM (Jon Spear) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 27 In article <1268@husc6.harvard.edu> hellerst@husc4.UUCP (Joe Hellerstein) writes: >Would like to hear people's recommendations for backup utilities (hard >drive to floppies...) I've been using HFS Backup 1.1, but its >incremental backup is very space-wasteful -- it doesn't reclaim any space >on the old backup, it just asks for new disks for the updated files. >Is DiskFit good? How about the plain old Apple HD Backup (I'm skeptical...) Yikes! HFS Backup 1.1 is seriously out of date (by at least 2 years), and not all that reliable. (maybe you don't have problems, but I did...). Call PCPC (they used to be at 800-622-2888) and ask about an upgrade to version 3! HFS Backup 3 has an "overwrite" mode where newer versions of a file will replace old ones in an archive, thus saving floppies. It also has lots of other features. But the backup utility I want is Retrospect. If I could only convince myself that it is really worth $150 or so to help organize my file archives. You might also want to consider trading to FastBack II -- I think they still offer a $40 deal if you send in the title page from another backup utility manual. -Jon -- ----- [The following address evaporates 1/31/90. New address sought.] Jon L Spear: jspear@gryphon.COM !gryphon!jspear gryphon!jspear@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov "With computers we can make billions of mistakes every second!"