Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!news From: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Wanted: Decent BACKUP program Message-ID: <1990Dec2.222001.9629@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 2 Dec 90 22:20:01 GMT References: <11510008@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Reply-To: draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University Lines: 22 In article <11510008@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> charlie@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Charlie Duke) writes: > PCBackup in PC Tools. It's fast, it allows incremental backups onto the end 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 So That's what happens! I was severely bitten by PC-Backup 5.0. Then I tried Norton's Backup, and it rejected several disks that PC-Backup was using. Even though PC-Backup 6.0 has ECC, I've been wary of it because it did not reject any diskettes - even known bad ones. Maybe I'll give it another shot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Draper In times like these it is helpful to buster.cps.msu.edu remember that there have always been times like these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------