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From: kosma%human-torch@stc.lockheed.com (Monty Kosma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive backup programs
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Date: 29 Jun 90 17:18:22 GMT
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   From: Chris Brand <wizard@sosaria.imp.com>
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
   Date: 27 Jun 90 16:58:14 GMT
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   In article <1247@eastman.UUCP> harding%b56vxg.dnet@kodak.com (Jon Harding x75944 mc23302) says:
   > 	I use Quarterback faithfully and often. It does more than I require
   > 	and is user friendly. I've used each version since 1.0 (latest 4.0).
   > 	Yes, there are PD "backups" out there but I always come back to 
   > 	QB. Well worth the price and support is good. When I had a problem
   > 	I talked with the gentleman who wrote it to get a solution.

   So could you please tell the gentlemen that it's high time to include a
   good compression algorithm? But please, include a check if the compressed
   files are larger than the original version (Saf-T-Net doesn't do it and is
   mainly because of that no alternative to Quaterback).


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   Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
   "Justice is the possession and doing 
   of what one is entitled to" - Platon
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I have been using the newer (but I think there's an even newer ver 4.0) ver
of MRBackup, and have been very pleased with it.  It uses a unix-like
compress utility to do compression.  I haven't run into any limitations
that hindered my backups (other than running out of floppies :-)

monty