Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!think!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Backups for HD Message-ID: <14020@snow-white.udel.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 90 19:06:54 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 30 Chris Brand writes: > The only one I know that does compression, MRBackup, uses the standard > Amigados file format, so it's incredibly slow. I've used MRBACKUP and found that I can live with it's speed by using it to backup to aome sort of a "fake floppy" --- either a RAD: configured to be congruent with a real floppy, or a fake floppy on a hard drive. Then, after each fake floppy is "filled", use diskcopy to create the actual backup disk (in another task --- remember, the Amiga CAN multitask 8-) ). I don't bother with compression, and kinda like the warm feeling in my tummy, knowing that all my data is stored in nice standard AmigaDos format that can be read on ANY system! I don't even need to fool with MRBACKUP to restore... Just diskcopy the floppy to RAD:, copy RAD: to the HD, reformat rad: (with the quick option) and prompt for another floppy. When I changed disk drives to the one I now have on my BBS, I used this method to restore about 140 floppies. It would take about 50 seconds to restore a floppy to a clean partition, and about 70 seconds by the time a 110 meg partition was over 100 megs full. Your mileage, of course, may vary. --- Cal // Cal Jones - Internet: \X/ BBS: 904-243-6219 1200-9600HST 340Meg, all Amiga Single Tasking? *JUST SAY NO!!!*