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From: ESR@SLACVM.BITNET (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: BACKUP PROGRAMS WITH COMPRESSION
Message-ID: <90282.100245ESR@SLACVM.BITNET>
Date: 9 Oct 90 18:02:45 GMT
References: <21700009@sunc7>
Organization: SLAC Computing Services
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>From: fireman@sunc7.cs.uiuc.edu
>Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
>Subject: BACKUP PROGRAMS WITH COMPRESSION
>Message-ID: <21700009@sunc7>
>Date: 8 Oct 90 19:14:00 GMT
>
>
>Neil Feiereisel writes:
>
> ...........
>
>If no such backup program exists, can someone tell me which backup programs
>are the best.  I'm currently using one that doesn't keep track of which
>disk number to insert next.  Leads to a bit of uncertainty.
>
>Finally, one last issue with regards to backup programs.  Why do they always
>start an incremental backup on a new disk?  Why can't they use the remaining
>space on the previous disk first?
>



I like PCTOOLS vers 6.0.  It is fast, allows a choice of compression schemes,
and allows incremental backups to continue on the last disk.  There are
other backup programs around that will do the same thing but together with
the other things packaged in PCTOOLS, it is a great buy.