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From: charlie@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Charlie Duke)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program
Message-ID: <11510008@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 90 21:10:01 GMT
References: <dfs.659634972@wesley>
Organization: HP Logic Systems Division - ColoSpgs, CO
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> > 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
> 
> If a marginally unacceptable disk is used with FASTBACK, one gets the
> opportunity to insert a fresh disk and proceed with the backup.  I
> don't remember PCBackup allowing me to do this.
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   If I am not mistaken, PCBackup just skips bad tracks when it finds them, so
that you don't have to begin again at all.  In fact, if you are not quick, you
will never know it happened until it takes more disks than you though it should.

Charlie Duke