Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!news!mlbarrow From: mlbarrow@athena.mit.edu (Michael L Barrow) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 01:35:39 GMT References: Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: ralphs%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu's message of 26 Nov 90 20:19:08 GMT In article ralphs%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) writes: Backup programs should be given their spot in a newsgroup (alt.religion.backups?). Everyone has their favorite. The one that I've seen that does what you are asking for is FASTBACK, unfortunately it is commericial. But it works on my systems (one IBM PC, one IBM/XT, and ITT xTRA, a COMPAQ 386/16, a no-name 386/25 and a homebrew 8-bit 80286); if it were going to be inconsistent, I think I would have found out. Look to EGGHEAD Software for a good price. Yes, Fastback is a fast program. I just hope you never have to restore the data you backed up. It's not exactly intuitive. The first time I used the program, I had to spend about 15 minutes trying to figure out why the restore I just did resulted in no files on my hard disk. I've also had to help several clients figure out how to restore. I guess that's why it's called "FastBACK." It certainly isn't Fast restore! --Michael L Barrow mlbarrow@mit.edu o MIT Information Systems/Information Services MCR Consultant o Project Athena Volunteer User Consultant o Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) o Oh, yeah.....I'm a student too! (MIT '93) -- --Michael L Barrow mlbarrow@mit.edu o MIT Information Systems/Information Services MCR Consultant o Project Athena Volunteer User Consultant o Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) o Oh, yeah.....I'm a student too! (MIT '93)