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From: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program
Message-ID: <90331.123105ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 27 Nov 90 20:31:05 GMT
References: <dfs.659634972@wesley> <17539@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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>From: mendi@netcom.UUCP (Greg Mendizabal)
>Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program
>Date: 27 Nov 90 05:41:02 GMT
>
>From article <dfs.659634972@wesley>, by dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll):
>>
>> Anyone have any pointers to such a program?  Preferably public domain, as
>> I'm notoriously cheap. :-)
>>
>
>I was with you 100% until this point ^.  I own PCBACKUP as part of PCTools.
>It is available standalone too, now.  But it does everything you mentioned.
>Plus some.  I haven't had any problems with it.

Several posters have recomended FastBack Plus but I, like Greg, prefer the
PCBackup in PC Tools.  It's fast, it allows incremental backups onto the end
of the previous backup set, it has several types of compression, and it's
reliable.  I recently had to restore my hard disk about three times as I
was diagnosing and ultimately replacing my 80MB Seagate doorstop and never
had a single problem.