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From: 871579l@aucs.uucp (Todd Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backups for HD
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.052715.7407@aucs.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 90 05:27:15 GMT
References: <14020@snow-white.udel.EDU> <22075@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: 871579l@aucs.UUCP (Todd Lowe)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <22075@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
>jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes:
>>Chris Brand <wizard@sosaria.imp.com> writes:
>>
>>> The only one I know that does compression, MRBackup, uses the standard
>>> Amigados file format, so it's incredibly slow. 
>>
>Hmmm ... I agree that it's nice knowing that your files are in AmigaDOS
>....  I don't feel safe having my backups in
>someones neato-keen-custom-format on floppy.  
> 
Well I use Quarterback for my back ups and am quite satisfied with it.
Although it does not use Amiga Dos format it makes up for it with speed and
relyability.  It takes just over 30 minutes to back up 25Megs onto *UNFORMATED*
floppies. It uses its own format, but i store a backup of it with my HD backup
disks so I always have it handy if I need to restore something, and I have
had to about 4 times since I started using it.  Restores are just as fast, and
you can restore individual files or the whole drive and have option to put
the files in the same place , a different place, and whethor on not to restore
the full subdirectory structure.

-Todd  
871579l@aucs