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From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program
Message-ID: <dfs.659634972@wesley>
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:56:12 GMT

I just spent 45 minutes backing up my 30MB hard drive onto 360K
floppies.  I'm looking for a better backup program!  Here's a list
of features I'm looking for, in decreasing order of importance:

- Ability to do incremental backups

- Ability to format floppies as needed during the backup process

- No choking if a floppy is bad - should be able to recover by asking
  for another floppy.

- Ability to backup first to drive A, then B, then A, etc. to speed up
  backup - no waiting for disk swapping

- Automatic ? compression of files as they're backed up

- Creation of an index file specifying which disk(s) files were backed up
  to.

Anyone have any pointers to such a program?  Preferably public domain, as
I'm notoriously cheap. :-)

Thanks,
--
David F. Skoll                              Department of Electronics
dfs@doe.carleton.ca                         Carleton University
(613) 786-7515                              Ottawa, Ontario, Canada