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From: jm21@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: backup programs
Message-ID: <9804@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 26 May 90 02:12:05 GMT
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In article <1990May25.191547.912@mentor.com> mstupak@mentor.com (Mike Stupak) writes:
>I have a Packard Bell 386SX running on MSdos 3.3 with a 40 meg. hard 
>drive and I would like to know people's experience with different
>backup programs (back up to floppies).  It would be nice to have something
>that did file compression, incremental backups, incremental restores,
...

I like Fastback for this.  Several of us here at work (the ones who DO
regular backups) use it.  Its menu-driven and is pretty easy to use, even
without reading the instructions.  It allows full backups as well as incre-
mental (backup only files with archive bit set and reset the bit), and
"differential" (same as incremental, but don't reset the bit).  You can
also specifically include or exclude files or whole directories.  It does
do pretty good compression and really is fast.  I will say that the only
other backup I've used is the regular MS-DOS BACKUP, and compared to it
most anything looks good.
Fastback isn't real cheap, but if you've got data that you consider import-
ant, its a good way to go.  It's easy and fast enough so that you'll 
probably do your backups as often as you should (which you probably won't
with slower, harder-to-use programs).


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