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From: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: backup programs
Message-ID: <4894@plains.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 16:33:28 GMT
References: <1990May25.191547.912@mentor.com>
Reply-To: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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Just yesterday, I used FastBack Plus to backup the 42 meg of files on my 67 meg
hard drive to high density 5-1/4" floppies.  It took 26 disks, and about 20
minutes.  I was in the process of reformatting my hard drive, so after doing
that, I restored all the data to the hard drive.  This took about 1/2 hour.
For the backup stage, FastBack Plus allows you to turn compression on or off (I
had it turned on and stored an average of 1.58 meg of data per 1.2 meg floppy),
and send the output to 5-1/4" or 3-1/2" drives (high or double density) or a
file path.  You can selectively back up files within a date range, files with
a certain archive attribute, new files since last backup, or all files.  You
can selectively include and exclude specific files, directories, and 
subdirectories.  You can either type in the name of what you want to include or
exclude, or you can just tag files on a directory tree that you can call up
in a window.  Very user friendly.  There are several steps to go through the
first time you use it, but if you are satisfied with that initial setup, you
can save it, and the next time you just have to hit Start and go from there.

The only thing I can think of that FastBack doesn't have that I think would be
nice is support for a tape drive.  There may be a way to fool it into thinking
that a tape drive is a file path, but I don't know about that.

I don't have a tape drive, so speaking for myself, FastBack Plus does 
everything I need it to do.

Kerry Person
(kperson@plains.nodak.edu)
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